Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love--The Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919 (Dear America)

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Summary: Color Me Dark's Review
Review: Color Me dark was the best book i ever read. Patricia McKissack really give's readers anticipation to keep reading. there's so many things that Nellie Lee Love questions and writes about in her diary. You want to find out what happens, you want to know if she'a solving a problem the same way that you would. You'll pick it up, and never want to put it down. That's why I give this book a Two thumbs up!

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Summary: For Adventure Readers
Review: Historically accurate,interesting, honest and a good addition to the series. Can be enjoyed by young and old alike.

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Summary: Want A Book That Is Good and You Can Use it For a Report
Review: The Dear America diary Color Me Dark by Nellie Lee Love is interesting story of a girls life with many sad, happy and serious times. The plot of the story is a black family trying to get their rights so that they can be equal with whites. Nellie's family owns a funeral home in Bradford Corners, Tennesse. In the book she moves to Chicago because her family thinks that Chicago will bring new hopes to blacks. When her father tries to get a license so that he can strat a funeral home in Chicago. Her father thinks that they want him to pay a bribe because he did all of the paperwork. Then Nellie finds out that she has to go to a new school where she finds different friends that are like her in a way. I would recommend this book for people of all ages who are willing to learn. People also read this book because it shows what some black families have to go through.

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Summary: For Adventure Readers
Review: This is a superb book, but I would recommend it only for people who like adventure, because some of the passages keep you on the edge of your seat. It is a trully thrilling book, and I loved it.

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Summary: The Great Migration North
Review: This is the diary of Nellie Lee Love a girl born in Bradford Corners, Tennessee. The town is segregated. The Blacks call it Corners and the Whites call it Bradford. Nellie has called this place home for all of her life. Her family is much into equality for Blacks and other races, and are terrified when more then fifty lynchings done by racists are reported to have been committed in their area. The family is even more terrified when they learn that their Uncle Pace has been claimed to have been drunk that February 4th, 1919 and had laid himself down on the train tracks and gotten hit, and then had died. Nellie's father can't stand another minute of it. He decides to move up North to Chicago, Illinois. The move takes a while to adjust to, especially since the family were witnesses the day the Chicago Riot occured in the year of the Red Summer. This year was the worst for Blacks because Whites were fighting all over, but in Chicago, Blacks were fighting back. Now the Love family is in danger. Will the city ever calm down? What losses will occur during the situation? What lies will be revealed? Read this wonderful book to find out.

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Summary: A Great Book about Seregation in the South!
Review: ~This is a great book about a girl named Nellie Lee Love who lived during a time when blacks were treated very unfairly compared to whites. She lived in the seregated town of Bradford Corners. Even though life wasn't very good in the seregated town it was bearable until Nellie Lee's Uncle Pace was killed. The police said he was drunk and accidentaly stepped in front of a moving train but in the Love's hearts they know that isn't true. When finally they learn the truth Nellie Lee's dad decides he~~ can't stand it anymore so he tells the family he has decided to move to Chicago. Nellie Lee and the rest of her family must face many different new challenges in Chicago. This book is a must read!~