Unnamed Train Passengers 9
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944
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Unnamed Train Passengers 9
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Unnamed Train Passengers 9
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
In The Reivers Lucius describes the (white) passengers who ride on the "Special," the major train that runs between Memphis and New York, as "the rich women in diamonds and the men with dollar cigars" (194). He also mentions the "Negroes" in the "Jimcrow" half of the train's smoking car (194); see Unnamed Negro Train Passengers 1. ("Jimcrow," usually written Jim Crow, is a synonym for the Southern system of racial segregation.)