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      Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919

      by Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack
      Published
      Apr 2000
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      Historical Historical
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      222
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      Dear America

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      Twelveyearold Nellie Lee's family moves north to Chicago in hopes of escaping the racism of the rural south and taking advantage of the opportunities in the city, but instead they discover a new kind of prejudice within their own race.

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      Dear America

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      General Fiction

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      Historical

      Age Level

      Kids (12 & Under) Kids: Middle Grade

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      Jan 2000 Scholastic ISBN 0439529115
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      First Edition Apr 2000 Scholastic ISBN 0590511599
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