For young readers, the powerful story of an African American girl's train journey south from Detroit in 1937.
Looks at issues of race in Depression-era Detroit for young readers, aged 8 through 12. This book presents a story based on real events about Douglas Ford Jr, a twelve-year-old African American boy growing up in Detroit in the 1930s.
Follows the story of author Jean Alicia Elster's maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Jackson. Through three successive generations of African-American women, Elster intertwines the... Læs mere