![]() ![]() The Jim Crow laws still apply but not as strict. The ones back east in the cities he notices have better jobs and better places to live in. The farther east he goes the more blacks succeed. I can infer from reading about his switch to living with his stepsister back east that he will notice 2 different worlds of blacks. I can hear the music blaring of the Benny Goodman Band and Duke Ellington s Orchestra. ![]() I can visualize the ballroom with all of the hip cats as he calls them. He describes working as a shoe shine boy at one of the jazz clubs. My mother s friend was at a restaurant and a white lady asked her what the special was as if my mother s friend was one of the staff that worked at the restaurant. That they can be someone who is a yes mam or I’l get that for you type of individual. ![]() I think the idea still stands today, the belief that a person of color can be a maid or carpenter. ![]()
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