It was the kind of hot that had forged him growing up north of Tampa, in little, mostly Black Lacoochee, Fla. — in a shack with no hot water, no electricity, no indoor bathroom — with his mother, Viola, rearing her seven children on whatever she could earn cleaning White people’s homes and canning fruit at a nearby citrus plant, after the father of the family died of pneumonia working in a lumber mill.
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