Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North
Dear America

Color Me Dark

The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North

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Patricia C. McKissack
Patricia C. McKissack
2000 • 218 pages

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Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.

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Dear America

Dear America is a 19-book series first released in 1996 with contributions by Kathryn Lasky, Barry Denenberg, and Kristiana Gregory.

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Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North

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