At Cairo, Illinois, the conductor sends Peter Siner forward into the Jim Crow car, and four years of Harvard fall away. Back home in a small Tennessee town, he hopes to open a school for his people, but finds himself between white townsmen who expect deference and a Black community wary of his new ideas.
A 1922 attempt by a white Southern novelist to treat Black life seriously; its racial attitudes are partly those of its day. Download the free EPUB.