A review by samanthas_bookshelf
Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919 by Patricia C. McKissack
4.0
Nellie Lee Love and her family head north to Chicago from Tennessee. In search of a new life away from hatred and lynchings, the family settles into life in the city. Facing a new, big school, girls who are just mean, and riots after a man dies, will the Love family succeed in their new endeavors?
I, for the majority, enjoyed this story, as it brought me memories odd reading other Dear America books in elementary and middle school. However, I'm starting to notice the flaws. I understand these are kid's books, but they came nowhere near portraying the fear Nellie and her family had to have faced at key points in their journey.
I, for the majority, enjoyed this story, as it brought me memories odd reading other Dear America books in elementary and middle school. However, I'm starting to notice the flaws. I understand these are kid's books, but they came nowhere near portraying the fear Nellie and her family had to have faced at key points in their journey.