Rebel Yell by Alice Randall

Author:Alice Randall
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2009-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

“When did they first approach him?”

“Probably during Harvard, but not at Harvard.”

Abel and Hope left for their first post barely six months after the wedding, in February 1986. In his pocket and in her purse was a diplomatic passport. Abel had proof that he was an important person married to an important person.

“What was it about Abel and planes?”

“Trains, buses, and boats all had a history of being segregated.”

“Planes weren’t part of his family trauma story?”

“Exactly.”

“Why did they call their car the Flying Crow?”

“That was the nickname of a train that carried people south from Chicago. It started out integrated and got segregated when it crossed into a Jim Crow state. The aunties said you could hear big grown men, black soldiers going down to those southern camps, crying in the night when the train crossed into Dixie,” said Hope.

“Abel’s family knew about that too?”

“Everybody black knew that.”

“And the Joneses called their car the Flying Crow because . . .”

“A black man rich enough to own a traveling car didn’t need to subject himself to a train. It’s a joke.”

“You get him.”

“I got him.”

“Then you left and no one did.”

“He didn’t choose a someone who could have.”

“Sammie. I didn’t see that coming . . .”

“When his parents got shot and killed . . .”

“Outside a restaurant in New Orleans?”

“A black man shot them.”

“Big Abel wouldn’t give up his wallet.”

“If we had been together Abel might have gotten over it.”

“Probably not.”

“Unfortunate Negroes in America are more unfortunate than unfortunate white people in America.”

“I’ve heard Abel say that so many times.”

“Now you’ve heard me.”

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