He tells Junior that his boss, Benny, fired him as a show of racial superiority. He starts up a conversation with the doorman, Junior Fornay. Easy refuses, and makes his way inside, where he learns that a chauffeur named Howard Green was beaten to death after leaving the club. On his way in, he meets a drunken white man who offers him twenty dollars to help him get into the club. He takes one hundred dollars cash in advance.Įasy goes to John's Place, an illegal jazz club in the back of Hattie Parson's grocery store. Albright tells Easy that his client is looking for a white woman named Daphne Monet, who frequents black speakeasies. Albright's honesty, Easy goes to meet the white man at his office. Easy has just been laid off from his job at Champion aircraft company, and needs to make money for his mortgage. Albright offers Easy an undercover job and gives him a business card with the location of his office. African-American World War II veteran Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is surprised when DeWitt Albright, a well-dressed white man, walks into Joppy's bar, normally a hangout for working-class black men.
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