Word: fors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For booming, trading, railroading Atlanta, the War Between the States was a cosmic incident but not the end of the world. Savannah and Decatur (doomed to be a mere suburb), Macon and Augusta might mourn the life that was gone; Atlanta had business to do: rebuilding, shipping to and from...
¶ In Grant Park (named for Confederate Colonel L. P. Grant-no relation of Ulysses S. Grant-who designed the city's defense fortifications), the 50-foot by 150-foot Cyclorama, whereon is depicted the Battle of Atlanta in exact, stupendous detail.
There was not money enough in the Carolinas for all the Negro folk, so Benjamin and Pearl Mason drifted north to Philadelphia. Ben washed cars in a garage. They had a baby girl, and things were all right until 1931. Then Ben lost his job, looked in vain for another...
One night Ben brought home a book of tickets for the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes. He told Frances, his daughter, to pick one, and they scraped together $2.50 to pay for it, wrote on it, "Just Must Win." Plump, 40-year-old Pearl prayed to God that they might.
The world changed color and shape for the stupefied Masons. To their house in the slums of South Philadelphia rushed well-wishers, curiosity-seekers, oil-well and gold-mine promoters. Police had to rope off their street. A man in Liberia wanted them to finance a bus line from Monrovia...