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...strike in two months. The UAW local didn't support the walkout, though dissident groups inside the plant--like the all-black Eldon Avenue Revolutionary Union Movement--did. Johnson saw all this, and joined it to his own experience: the injuries, the conditions, the bullying foremen who called him "nigger" and "boy." In May he hurt himself in a car accident and his doctor told him to stay home and recover, but in a week Chrysler told him to return to work or be fired. He went back, but soon Chrysler sent him a letter saying he was fired anyway...
...beautiful tree, right to the northwest side of my car shed, two-car shed; had that '26 Ford and that '28 Chevrolet stationed close to that plum tree." Such prosperity was Shaw's undoing. Local whites "didn't like to see a nigger with too much." The sharecroppers' union told blacks that they could some day run their own affairs, and Shaw joined. But a white landowner coveted what Shaw had, and the future was too slow in coming to help. Shaw tried-and failed-to stop sheriffs deputies from stripping a neighbor as they...
...fear. "If I sent my kids on the bus to Roxbury and anything happened to them, I'd shoot myself. It's that simple," says a father of two. Though Southie spokesmen deny that racism plays any part in their resistance, prejudice is evident in the "Nigger go home" graffiti...
...point, a Haitian immigrant named Jean-Louis Andre Yvon, 33, turned unwittingly onto Dorchester Street. Some 35 people surrounded Yvon's car, smashed his windshield and pulled him out. Someone shouted, "Get the nigger!" Yvon fled for the porch of a nearby house and clung to the railing as youths battered him with clubs. Only after a white policeman drew his pistol and fired some warning shots was a dazed and bleeding Yvon finally rescued. "He would have been dead if I hadn't fired," the policeman said later...
...American literature. Melville navigated the subject on the river boat Fidele, which he filled with assorted rascals for his novel The Confidence Man. It was no coincidence that in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn the shuck and the flim-flam cut across racial and class lines, from Nigger Jim's magical hair ball to the King and the Duke's pretentious ripoffs...