Going North (Janice Harrington)

Summary: Leaving behind Big Mama, loving relatives, and the familiar red soil and cotton fields of Alabama, Jessie and her family are going north to Nebraska.  They are pioneers searching for a better life, one with decent schools and jobs.  But traveling through the segregated South is difficult for an African American family in the 1960s.  With most places reserved for "whites only," where will they stop to get gas and food? (from amazon.com)

Where can I find it?: Lower/Middle School library, Lithgow building

Tags: Moving, Household; Race relations; Southern States; African Americans; Segregation; African American pioneers