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In article <910770930.547357@wagasa.cts.com>, kahorn@king.cts.com (Karen Horn)
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>BTW, anyone know _why_ this story is called "Parade?"
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>Karen
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The killing took place on the Confederate Independence/Rememberance
Day. The victim was still dressed in the dress clothes she wore to the
parade--a big day in the South at that time. She had come from the parade
to the factory to pick up her wages. It was also because of the parade
that the factory was closed on that Saturday--and the only ones there
were the Jewish bookkeeper and the black janitor. The story is made
all the more compelling because the jury took the word of a black man
against a white man--leading some to conclude that the South wasn't
totally against blacks. They preferred them to Jews. Of course, we now
know or suspect that the janitor lied, probably committed the crime and
the lynching was the death of an innocent man. The parade that begins
and ends the show, I guess, also symbolizes that after this brutal murder
(the lynching) that life went on.
P-man
