Main Idea
- Papa is home and brought L.T. Morrison
- Explained what happened to John Henry- Died (Lynched)
- Papa told his kids NOT to go to the Wallace Store
Vocabulary
Lynched
Tawny-dark brown
burlap -pg. 33
ginned- pg 33
guston-pg 35
wear y’all out-pg 41 (hit with a stick)
bootleg liquor-pg 41- (illegal alcohol)
Questions:
Is there another reason that Mr. Morrison is with the Logan family?
What are the black families going to do about the lynchings?
Is anything going to happen to Henrietta?
Will the Logan kids listen to their father or will they go to to the Wallace store?
| Details
- Big Ma is Papa’s mother
- Picking vine cotton
- Papa came home
- Mrs. Morrison (L.T.)came home with Papa
- taller than 6’ 2”
- gray hair
- very muscular
- scar on face
- human tree
- Papa had gotten Mama’s letter
- Papa was going to be home till Sunday, it was Saturday
- Mr.
Morrison lost his job on the railroad- now he was going to help out on
at the Logan’s in exchange for food, shelter and a few $ cash
- He was fired for fighting with white men
- Papa thinks Mr. Morrison will help protect his family while he is away at work
- Little Man thinks Mr. Morr. is here for another reason.
- John Henry Berry died-everyone was told at church
- Henrietta was in John Henry’s truck with JH and Beacon, they stopped for gas
- Drunk white men accused John Henry of flirting with Sallie Ann
- They drove off and drooped of Henrietta
- The white men caught up with JH & B at his uncle’s house
- His uncle tried to help
- The white men set the 3 black men on fire
- The sheriff called Henrietta a liar
- Papa said they don’t shop at the Wallace stor
- He told the kids not to go there
- Laniers and Averys sit around after church and discuss the lynching
- another lynching happened to a boy at Crosston
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