- Steinbeck arrived in Louisiana, where he went to check out a public spectacle that had been going on there.
- It seems that there was a controversy over the fact that a school was admitting two African American children, and several women (who were known as the "Cheerleaders") were coming to protest at the school every morning and afternoon. They got quite a crowd around them as they shouted at the children.
- On the way to the school in a taxi, Steinbeck pretended to be British and got the cabbie's reflections on the protests. The cabbie ended up in a rant about Jews from New York.
- Once he got to the school and saw the spectacle firsthand, Steinbeck found it all pretty sickening.