Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sat, 2016-07-23 18:32
For unknown reasons this "white man" chases a Negro across the platform at a "bleak" train station and shoots him "in the body with a blunt pistol" (138).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sat, 2016-07-23 18:31
At a "bleak" train station he is passing through, Labove witnesses a white man shooting this "negro" (138). Although the Negro seems to be dying, and tells the "white folks" trying to help him that "I awready been shot," when his clothes are pushed aside the bullet that hit him "rolls out . . . bloodless" (139).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sat, 2016-07-23 18:29
An unnamed banquet guest, a "fellow neophyte" in the legal profession, invites Labove to Memphis to celebrate their achievement in graduating from law school (130).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sat, 2016-07-23 18:18
The University of Mississippi opened in 1848, and became co-educational in 1882. According to the narrative, the male and female students who are there with Labove generally ignore him.
