Comment by projektfu

So, 1926? My feeling is: probably, from some white people. And, these areas had non-white people. The GP said Midwest, so we can think of the region roughly from Indiana to Nebraska, and North to the border. While there were "sundown towns" in those areas, where racists banded together to keep black people out of the town after dark, there were also people outside those towns with diverse beliefs and attitudes towards black people. In that region, the harshest laws regarding race were probably in Missouri. In any event, a black man was probably at greater risk than a white man of suffering an attack by a stranger, but I would expect there also would be people of all races willing to extend hospitality.