They had a Dream

Topic: What passage do you particularly like in the book? Why? I loved his introductory passage; "Just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, I was was drafted and sent to Camp Croft in South Carolina from my home in New York. In Spartanburg i was astonished and disturbed to see local blacks step off the sidewalk into the gutter to let whites pass....... "Just let the white man drop his whip," he said with a grim smile, "and then watch what happens." He sets up his whole book with a personal narrative and it guides your mind to see how bad the blacks really had it. Creating a path of which to lead you down throughout the whole book. I also like his inclusion of his self in a very distant topic this creates a relationship with the reader and also with the content of the book making his opinion and facts in the book more valuable and more credible. This one little passage sets up the entire content of the book and it also clearly outlines which side Archer takes on the matter.