Chapter 5 in Bad Boy talks a little more about his school life, as well as the summer of 1947. It was a time of eager anticipation for African Americans across the country. Pg.35, “ The president, Harry S. Truman, was negotiating with black leaders to integrate the armed forces. The New York Amsterdam News, our local weekly Negro newspaper, suggested that the United States was now going to treat Negroes as equals for the first time”. A lot of crazy things happened in this chapter like Walter and Johnny trying to hang Richard. But that incident was broken up by their summer priest Abbot. Pg.39, “ We took Richard down into the church basement, threw a rope over the railing that ran around the gym, and were stringing him up when reverend Abbot
