Chapter 10 Summary

Gorman Gay explains to Dr. Crookman, Hank Johnson, and Chuck Foster that the Republican Party needs more money for its upcoming presidential campaign. While Black-No-More will soon be shutting down all but five of its sanitariums because there are only a couple thousand blacks left in the country, they still need to keep open their lying-in hospitals for white women who deliver black babies. Gay believes that the election will be a violent one and promises that the government will protect the hospitals if Black-No-More donates five million dollars to the Republican campaign. Crookman agrees to the plan.

At the Democratic Convention in July, 1936, the party members cannot agree on whom to nominate for their presidential candidate. The Knights of Nordica want to nominate Rev. Givens, and the Anglo-Saxon members want to nominate Arthur Snobbcraft. Finally, Matthew threatens that the Knights of Nordica...