Media: Book
Title: W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race
I'm not sure why the descriptions of southern racism are hitting me so profoundly as I continue to read Lewis's biography. I have encountered descriptions of these actrosities before. Perhaps it is because in the context of this book I have come to know Du Bois and his family, therefore the victims are literary friends. Yet it is dissimliar from such descriptions in fictions having the added bite of being real. Whatever it may be here is bit of what captured my mind and emotions with indignation today:
"Walking the two mile stretch to downtown Atlanta becuase she (Du Bois's wife) ... refused to patronize the segregated transit system. It galled her to have to wait until every white customer had been served before a drawling department-store clerk deigned to wait on her. Along her route there was not a single water-fountain or park bench lawfull permitted to Negroes. "
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