The Respectful Prostitute
A woman newly off the train from New York wakes in a Southern town with a young man in her room, a senator's nephew, who wants her signature on a statement that a Black passenger from her carriage assaulted her. She saw his cousin shoot an unarmed man on that train, and by turns the police, the senator and a crowd gathering in the street come to explain what her word is worth. Sartre built it from the Scottsboro case after his first American tour.
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