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Macon Dead I is mis-named by a drunk clerk. He is a teen-ager.
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Approximate date constructed form textual hints. His father is probably in his mid-late 30s from hints on 53 and 67.
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Estimate from textual clues, as so many dates are.
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Macon Dead II was 16, Pilate was 12.
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Also known as WWI
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Ruth Foster marries at 16 (Morrison 70).
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A group dedicated to avenging the deaths of Black people by killing white people. According to Guitar - who is a member - it was founded in response to the killing of a Black soldier from the First World War in Georgia.
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Dr. Foster dies of an unknown illness. Macon Dead II catches his wife doing something inappropriate with his body (Morrison 63, 70-71).
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"Why don't you join him and call yourself Guitar X?"
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The stock martek crash to America's ntry into WWII
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"At 3:00 PM on Wednesday the 18th of Feburary, 1931, I will take off from Mercy and fly away on my own wings. Please forgive me. I loved you all" (Morrison 1).
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Born the day after the insurance agent took flight, his mother was the first Black patient ever admitted to Mercy Hospital (Morrison 4-5).
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At four years old, Milkman realizes only birds and airplanes can fly (Morrison 9).
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Freddy catches Milkman still being breast-fed at the age of four and gives him the nickname "Milkman" (Morrison 15).
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At 12, Milkman meets Guitar in school, and Guitar takes Milkman on his first visit to Pilate's house, where Milkman falls in love with Hagar (Morrison 36, 47).
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Hagar and Milkman have sex for the first time. He is 17, she is 22 (Morrison 92).
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The Comittee on Government Contract Compliance, referenced by Milkman on page 62. First real Civil Rights work since Reconstruction.
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Milkman hits his father for hitting his mother. He is 22 (Morrison 64).
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Emmitt Till is killed in Mississippi. The killers would later be found not guilty.
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Milkman breaks off his incestuous relationship with Hagar. He is 31 and Hagar is 36. Hagar proceds to try to kill him every month afterward (Morrison 98, 118).
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NPR Rememberance StoryFour black girls are killed when a KKK group planted a bomb in the church during Sunday School. It took over 15 years to even bring one man to justice.
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Morrison 184 - 186
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