Chapters 16 through 19 Summary

In Chapter Sixteen, Sam meets with Bucky's lawyers. Clive Billings is a friend of Roland's and works for the NAACP. Eric Richman is a white lawyer hired to defend Bucky. Eric warns that the prosecutors could try to get information from Sam about the Black Panthers though Bucky's lawyers will try to keep that from happening. Leroy's wife enters the apartment with her daughter and a stack of papers. She reveals that Roland has been helping with some of the research for the case, a fact Sam finds difficult to believe. Sam and Stick argue about the situation and at one point Sam points out that Roland hates everything about guns and violence. Stick asks how Sam has not figured out that Stick also hates guns and violence. Stick says the Panthers are making positive changes in their neighborhood. They've begun...