Song of Soloman Timeline

By miaowen21
  • Period: to

    Lincoln president

  • Freedmen's Bureau

  • Macon II is born

  • Ruth Foster is born

  • Period: to

    WWI

  • Ruth and Macon get married

  • Colored men drafted in the army

  • Macon wishes he had strangled Ruth then

    says this when he talks to Milkman

  • Guitar is born

  • Period: to

    WWII

  • Milkman is born

    Mr. Smith jumps off the hospital roof and dies
  • Period: to

    FDR president

  • Car ride with family

    Milkman pees on Lena

  • Milkman visits Pilate for the first time

  • Milkman notices deformity

    one of his legs is shorter than the other
  • Period: to

    Truman president

  • Milkman punches dad

    and has the conversation about Ruth and goes to visit Guitar. Milkman is 22 when this happens

  • Emmett Till death