Really liking this some more, and I was still upset by the naked racism of the hotel manager. My literary introduction to US racism was in a short story I read in college, "A Short Wait Between Trains", the story of Black MPs escorting a trainful of German POWs on their way to a POW camp in the south. While the German prisoners ate in th…
Really liking this some more, and I was still upset by the naked racism of the hotel manager. My literary introduction to US racism was in a short story I read in college, "A Short Wait Between Trains", the story of Black MPs escorting a trainful of German POWs on their way to a POW camp in the south. While the German prisoners ate in the station dining room, the Black MPs had to eat out behind the kitchen because they were not allowed inside the station..... Heather Cox Richardson wrote a book "How the South Won the Civil War", and so far she is right about that.....the bastiges.
Really liking this some more, and I was still upset by the naked racism of the hotel manager. My literary introduction to US racism was in a short story I read in college, "A Short Wait Between Trains", the story of Black MPs escorting a trainful of German POWs on their way to a POW camp in the south. While the German prisoners ate in the station dining room, the Black MPs had to eat out behind the kitchen because they were not allowed inside the station..... Heather Cox Richardson wrote a book "How the South Won the Civil War", and so far she is right about that.....the bastiges.
That is a great book written by Heather. I highly recommend it.