Richard takes a job at the same hotel where his classmate’s brother had worked until he was murdered for consorting with a white prostitute. This situaion reminded me of Emmett Till.
"Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi on August 24, 1955 when he reportedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, two white men kidnapped Till, beat him, and shot him in the head. The men were tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them. Till's murder and open casket funeral galvanized the emerging civil rights movement."
http://www.biography.com/people/emmett-till-507515
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