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Interesting Facts

 * White soldier refused to get a blood transfusion from Money Kirby because he was black.
 * Black, injured war veteran was beaten by whites for drinking from the wrong water fountain.
 * Plessy was actually 7/8ths white, but still treated as colored

Connections

 * A connection to my group's research was that a black man was arrested for a crime he didn't commit, which led to a riot of white people.

Questions

 * Why would Nobuo Honda help the colored people when he was accepted as white? He was doing the tight thing, but he was endangering himself at the same time.
 * Why would the group of whites beat the injured, war veteran, black man just because he was drinking from their water fountain? Why wasn't there any level of respect for the man who had been hurt fighting for their freedom?