The crowd that watches as the coffin carrying Samuel Beauchamp is taken off the train contains a "number of Negroes and whites both" (363). The Negroes include "men and women too," but this icon represents the group of "idle white men and youths and small boys" who are there. There do not seem to be any white women among the spectators (363).
The crowd that watches as the coffin carrying Samuel Beauchamp is taken off the train contains a "number of people, Negroes and whites both" (363). This icon represents the "probably half a hundred Negroes, men and women too," who are there (363).
The Jefferson undertaker who buries the black citizens of Yoknapatawpha is himself a Negro. It was typical practice throughout the Jim Crow South at the time of the story to segregate funeral parlors as well as cemeteries. The "Negro undertaker" himself does not appear in the story (363).
