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Imagine it's been a long day, and you're tired to the bone.

You just returned to Greenwood from the fancy Tulsa Hotel where you work as a porter.

There's a part of you that can't believe you're back at your job, working for the white folks after what they did,

but you've got a family to feed.

Tonight though, you somehow found the energy to come out to the high school.

The Greenwood Relief Committee and the pastors have called a meeting, supposedly to discuss the offers all those white men have been making to buy up all of your neighbor's land.

One of them came by your tent just last week, and you've been thinking about his offer ever since.

In the crowd, you catch sight of your neighbor, Isaiah.

He looks as tired and wrung out as you feel.

Isaiah! How are you in Georgina doing, brother?

Best we can, I guess.

Sure glad it's dry today. We're sick of all this rain, the tent leaking in on.

How about you? I'm dying to know what this committee has to say.

But I'll be honest, Isaiah. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna sell.

I don't like the pitiful amount they're offering,

but even if we've got that much, Mary and I can move and not have to work for those folks.

I can barely stomach being in that hotel.

I know exactly what you mean. My poor Georgie is back to a laundry from Miss Ellen.

She's even meaner now than she was before the trouble.

I don't know about Sally. Then we'd be giving them exactly what they want.

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