There was John Dos Passos, faithful son of Harvard, and John Howard
Lawson, another one of the 'New Playwrights' from Greenwich Village.
There was Clarina Michelson, ready to do the hard work again, and
William Patterson, a Negro lawyer from New York, running the greatest
risk of any of them, with his black face not to be disguised. Just up
Beacon Street was the Shaw Monument, with figures in perennial bronze,
of unmistakable Negro boys in uniforms, led by a young Boston blueblood
on horseback; no doubt Patterson had looked at this, and drawn courage
from it. ...
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