Unnamed Northern Negroes

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Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Mon, 2014-06-30 17:49
Text: 
Light in August
Character Key: 
Unnamed Negroes in the North
Display Name: 
Unnamed Northern Negroes
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Unnamed Northern Negroes
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Multi Gender Group
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Joe Christmas' Fifteen-Year Street in Light in August (Location)
Origin: 
The North
Biography: 

Part of the time Christmas is on "the street which was to run for fifteen years" he spends in Chicago and Detroit, living and eating "with negroes" (225) as a Negro himself. He fights with any of the black men "who call him white" (225).

Individual or Group: 
Group
Character changes class in this text: 

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