Strange Fruit #2

The senator conceals the black engineer in his office for his own protection, and there they discuss ways to relieve the pressure on the levee. Johnson, still silent, bursts into the whites-only library and consults books on physics until deputies take him into custody. Pressured from one side by angry African Americans, and from the other by Ku Klux Klan, the sheriff orders Sonny beaten in quest of information on the missing white child. Johnson, who has flashbacks of maltreatment in a futuristic setting, breaks the prisoners out.