In 1953 Essie Mae Washington-Williams moved to California to start a new life with her husband and son. She flew home regularly to receive cash gifts from her father that were delivered by a relative; she also kept close tabs on her father's political activity. In 1956 nineteen southern senators declared war on the Brown vs.… Continue reading Multi-Racial Read #16: Dear Senator Part VII
Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love is the light-skinned sister and confidant to her darker and 10-months-older sister, Erma Jean. In the spring of 1919 when their uncle's murder is covered up, Erma Jean becomes unable to speak and is sent north to Chicago to see if physicians can cure her "hysteria." Soon afterwards their father decides… Continue reading Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, The Great Migration North