We learn here: Story-telling

This is a scene in which the young Wright confronts a librarian in an attempt to get a book by Baltimore author and journalist H. L. Mencken from a whites-only public library. ..... It had grown colder outside and we quickly returned to our climate-controlled hotel room. We had just eaten a filling meal and paid for it with our own money. We were all about fifteen. The man we had encountered was probably in his fifties. He had no roof, no money, or food. ...