The blight hadn’t yet carried off the elms, and under them drivers had pulled over, parking bumper to bumper, and turned on their radios to hear Roosevelt. The light held after nine o’clock, and the ground was covered with clover, more than a mile of green between Cottage Grove and Stony Island. “I can recall walking eastward on the Chicago Midway on a summer evening. “Novelist Saul Bellow remembers the exhilarating experience of listening to Roosevelt speak. No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II They were enemies of our country, people sworn to destroy all the so-called democratic governments of the world . . . . There they sat: eating, talking, laughing, smoking. As we stood on the outside and saw what was going on, we could scarcely believe our own eyes. They entered the large room, sat at the table. About 11:30 that same morning, about two dozen German prisoners of war came to the lunchroom with two guards. To do that would contaminate the very air of the place, so we had to go to the kitchen. “But we couldn’t eat where the white people were eating. “The only place that would serve us was the lunch room at the station,” one of the nine reported. “In Louisiana, a group of nine Negro GIs boarded a train for transfer from the hospital at Camp Claiborne to the hospital at Fort Huachuca in Arizona.
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