What are three facts you learned from the Afterword?

1) Lefty Lewis and Herman E. Calloway are both based loosely on the author's grandfathers.

2) My mother's father, Earl "Lefty" Lewis, was one of six or seven redcaps who worked at the train station in Grand Rapids. Michigan, during much of the depression. The jobs of Pullman porter and redcap were among the few open to African American men at that time and carried a certain prestige in the black community.

3) The author's grandfather became the first African American cabdriver in Grand Rapids

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