In His Own Hometown — Janice Daugharty

Only Earl Sanders, a black man from Washington, DC, is worthy to speak at the library dedication in his South Georgia home county. Only he has gone away to Harvard and become an attorney. After nobody, white or black, offers to put him up for the night, he stays with a bitter old black lady named Miss Leoti. In return for her "hospitality" she wants to know one thing: "Why did you come back home after you finally made it out of these turpentine woods"?