Eula Biss Time And Distance Overcome Summary

Eula Biss is the author of the article “Time and Distance Overcome”, and her grandfather was a lineman and “broke his back when a telephone pole fell”(Biss 541). He asked to smash him onto the road before he died. Have anyone think about the stories behind a telephone pole when we see a thin and high pole? “Nothing is innocent,” Biss said, because even a common pole might be full of heavy stories about history, politic, and humanity (542). In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell first time demonstrated the telephone. At that time, it was a novelty and pricy item came with crazy ideas, so it became “a plaything of the rich”(537). Besides, telephone companies also had difficulty in obtaining a complete network of telephone writes. Homeowners and business owners sawed telephone poles down and prevented telephone companies to erect any new …show more content…
As the inventor of lynching, the US Congress, presidents, and Senate always cannot concentrate their opinions on the law of antilynching. By more and more black migration moved to northern cities, the competition for the interracial job rose, and the problem of the domestic presence of soldiers and veterans presented, race riots became more serious. Next, black men accused of attacking white women were hanged from telephone poles. Negros were shot and hanged from telephone poles. Race riot spread over the country and forced some black to “flee their home”(541). In 1921, four companies of the National Guard started to call out to end the race war. “The poles, of course, were not to blame. It was only coincidence that they became convenient as gallows, because they were tall and straight, with a crossbar, and because they stood in public places” (540). However, people cannot erase and forget the heavy historical events that happened and developed by those poles about lynching and

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