Near the beginning of the film, after a grim
montage of old newsreels and
photos of southern black labor and lynching of blacks, a
color fade takes us from archival footage of blacks exiting a New Orleans train to a shot of Junior alone with his suitcase in front of the station.
In prison he fashioned a
montage on the back of the rules board posted in his cell, affixing
photos cut from magazines and newspapers, and drawing
colored stars around his favorites.