Requiem for a Nun, 37 (Event)

Page Number: 
37
Order within Page: 
5
First 8-10 words of event: 
and now the pigeons also, interminably murmurous,
Page Event Ends: 
38
Era: 
The Twenties (1920-1929)
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Friday, January 1, 1926 to Monday, December 31, 1951
Summary: 

Referring to the "centennial" courthouse, which locates this passage in and after 1926, the narrator notes that the town's modern inhabitants barely remember the men who founded it and that "Negroes...cast ballots too" for the same racist candidates as the white voters (37).

Chronological Order: 
135.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 

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