By Langston Hughes & Dolan Hubbard
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Roy picked up his bags, since there were no porters, and carried them toward a rusty old Ford that seemed to be a taxi. He felt dizzy and weak. The smoke and dust of travel had made him cough a lot. The eyes of the white men about the station were not kind. ” His skin burned. For the first time in half a dozen years he felt his color. He was home. III Sing a song of Dixie, cotton bursting in the sun, shade of chinaberry trees, persimmons after frost has fallen. Hounds treeing possums October nights.
Carraway. III Home When the boy came back, there were bright stickers and tags in strange languages the home folks couldn’t read all over his bags, and on his violin case. They were the marks of customs stations at far-away borders, big hotels in European cities, and steamers that crossed the ocean a long way from Hopkinsville. They made the leather-colored bags and black violin case look very gay and circus-like. They made white people on the train wonder about the brown-skinned young man to whom the baggage belonged.
When Roy played, ill as he was, the notes went bursting out the windows and the colored folks and white folks in the street heard them. The classic Mr. Brahms coming out of a nigger’s house in the southern end of Missouri. O, my God! Play yo’ violin, Roy! Tonight’s your concert. The Deacons and the Ladies’ Aid sold a lot of tickets to the white folks they worked for. Roy’s home-coming concert at Shiloh Church was a financial success. The front rows were fifty cents and filled with white folks. The rest of the seats were a quarter and filled with Negroes.