Choose two pieces of text evidence that demonstrates the lengths Oyster took for his son.
a. "Oyster’s boy was prepared. I’m telling you, prepared! He had a good education and could do the work, black as he was."
b. "Well, sir, old man Oyster was proud as he could be of his boy. We was all proud. The church was proud. The white business school what graduated him was proud. Everything went fine for two or three years."
c. “But old man Oyster stood there and argued with the man for his son’s rights. That’s why I say he’s got gumption. He said, ‘I ain’t asking to be picking and choosing, and I ain’t asked nothing for myself. I’m speaking about that boy o’ mine."
d. "Now, old man Oyster ain’t never had no trouble of any kind in this town before, but when them cops started to put their hands on him and throw him out o’ that office, he raised sand."
e. "But he always did want to make something out of that boy o’ his’n, Charlie—little and runty as he was. He worked hard to do it, too. He portered, bellhopped, did road work, did anything he could get to do."
