![]() ![]() Think she could have made the point even stronger in the story as a whole, but ![]() Information comes in the epilogue and in the historical notes. They still were seen as inferior by other people. Uncle Meese and, in the end, the Love family, were prosperous and succeeded, McKissack also shows how, even though people like This was one of the most well-developed, nuanced cast ofĬharacters that I’ve seen in a while. There were black people with differing social classesĪnd racial opinions. Racist (okay, well, only a couple that are named, but the rest were all The rich people weren’t all greedy, the white people weren’t all My favorite part was that all of these people were truly different types The only way to succeed seems to be to pay other people to give you what you There’s the parents, who have to navigate the business world of Chicago where Story of how her Uncle Pace died tragically after returning home from WWI. Her sister, Erma Jean, who has her own obstacles to overcome when she hears the Who is determined to show the world that her skin color doesn’t matter. We have, of course, the protagonist, Nellie Lee, McKissack gives a great job of showing all different Summer.” There’s also a fair amount of city vs. ![]() The Great Migration, race riots, class disputes, and Chicago’s infamous “Red McKissack tackles so much in Color Me Dark: Jim Crow laws, the KKK, McKissack, was published in 2000 by Scholastic. Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North, by Patricia C. ![]()
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