There are two incidents that echo this indiginity in the movie, one with an interesting twist. That's all I can say. Kevin @ Mac Donnell Rare Books 9307 Glenlake Drive Austin TX 78730 512-345-4139 Member: ABAA, ILAB, BSA You can browse our books at: www.macdonnellrarebooks.com ------ Original Message ------ From: "Barbara Schmidt" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] 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 >