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The Cinder Yard

Richard Wright and his friends would have play-wars here.

Broken Milk Bottle

Wright describes how, when young, he and his friends tried to have a cinder war with white children, one of whom threw this at him, seriously cutting his neck.

The Kilns

Big Boy hides here, and from this vantage point he sees Bobo tarred and burnt alive by the lynch mob.

Old Man Harvey's Swimming Hole

The chain of killing that forces Big Boy to leave town begins here.

Will's Truck

Elder Peters' son drives this to Chicago.

The White Rowboat

Mann must use this to get his sick and pregnant wife to the hospital.

The Hospital

Mann's wife dies here, and later he must help evacuate the building.

The Levee

Black males in the town, including Mann, are pressed into service at gunpoint to shore this up with sandbags.

The Ax

Mann...

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