![]() ![]() ![]() But these discomforts are nothing to compare with the race riot that occurs that summer. They must adapt to crowded apartment living, new neighbors, a tough new school, and making new friends, none of which is easy. Life in the city is far different for the Love girls from what they thought it would be. Here he hopes to set up a new undertaking business. He dies, and Daddy, realizing that this suspicious death has probably been the work of the Klan, decides to protect his family by moving them to Chicago. Everyone knows that Pace did not drink at all. ![]() As the sheriff tells it, he got drunk and fell asleep on the railroad tracks, where he was hit by a train. But when he does, he’s been badly injured. A wire comes announcing that Uncle Pace is coming home. Then one day, the town’s sheriff confiscates the shop’s copies of The Crisis, and warns the men there that anyone belonging to the NAACP is asking for trouble from the Ku Klux Klan. The arrival each month of the NAACP magazine, The Crisis, is the only communication southern blacks have with the larger black community, and Daddy Love faithfully picks it up at his barbershop, reading it cover to cover. Not much happens about the only excitement is the occasional letter from Nellie’s Uncle Pace, still a soldier in France. ![]() In this new addition to the Dear America series, life in 1919 is peaceful and happy for Nellie Lee Love and her family in the little town of Bradford Corners, Tennessee. ![]()
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