Matt Barton

“Jim Crow was a bipartisan crime.”
― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

“Going All the Way is about what hell it is to be oversexed in Indianapolis, and why so many oversexed people run away from there. It is also about the narrowness and dimness of many lives out that way. And I guarantee you this: Wakefield himself, having written this book, can never go home again. From now on, he will have to watch the 500-mile Speedway race on television.”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way: A Novel

“The Negro is among us and the race should be encouraged to progress, but that path should never lead to social mingling,” warned the Indianapolis Star in 1921.”
― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

“His mother said she had to use the wagon that afternoon, but she’d drop him off wherever he was going. “I’m going to the Red Key,” he said. “Where?” “The Red Key,” he shouted. “Over on College and Fifty-fourth Street.” “The tavern?” “It’s a bar.” “You’re going there in the afternoon?” “I’m meeting a guy.” “Are you sure they’re open—in the afternoon?” Sonny took a deep breath. “I’m sure.”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way: A Novel