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There are two incidents that echo this indiginity in the movie, one with 
an interesting twist. That's all I can say.

Kevin
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------ Original Message ------
From: "Barbara Schmidt" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 2/4/2019 5:08:10 PM
Subject: Re: Huck Finn and The Green Book

>I have not seen the movie or read the book.  But reading Kevin Mac
>Donnell's comments and Hal Bush's thoughts on it brings back a vivid
>chapter from Robert Caro's _The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the
>Senate_, p. 888-89 in a chapter titled "The 'Working Up'".  LBJ discusses a
>conversation with Gene Williams, his maid's husband, about Williams's
>reluctance to drive LBJ's car along with LBJ's beagle from Washington, DC
>back to Texas during the Senate recess. He quotes Williams, "a colored
>man's got enough trouble getting across the South on his own, without
>having a dog along." LBJ told several versions of such a incidents
>including another about his cook, a college graduate and her husband who
>drove the limousine of the Vice President of the United States back to
>Texas. "When they had to go to the bathroom, they would stop, pull off on a
>side road, and Zephyr Wright, the cook of the Vice President of the United
>States, would squat in the road to pee. ... That's wrong." The chapter is
>available on google books and the amazon search inside feature.
>
>Barb
>

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