The Emancipation Of Robert Sadler (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
This was up north now, and black people walked on the same side of the street with white people. They weren’t in love with each other, but they walked next to each other, sat next to each other, and talked with each other. There were black and white bums in the park, too. They ate together, panhandled together, robbed together, and slept in the same park together under their respective newspaper coverings. I arrived in Detroit in August of 1934, the year Hitler became führer of Germany. The Depression had hit America, and jobs and money were hard to come by. Ringling Bros. didn’t need any more men, and so I had no choice but to sleep in the park and panhandle. I slept and hung around downtown in Grand Circus Park, a round little park with fountains, several statues, flower beds, and ten streets fanning out from it. There were so many people who stayed in that park that we called it the Grand Circus Hotel. Whole families slept on the benches and on the grass.
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