Don’t start nothin’ won’t be nothin’

how a Pullman man got even

photo courtesy Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan

A short, slender, bespectacled gentleman with graying hair is strolling down a sunny, tree-lined street of Brooklyn, New York. Well, Black Brooklyn to be precise, Bedford-Stuyvesant. It’s quiet here this afternoon, most everybody is still at work.

Our gentleman does not seem pressed by important business, but he is resplendent…