Going North by Janice Harrington (2004)

I heard about this author on NPR, ordered one of her poetry books and checked out a couple of her kid books in our library. Beautifully illustrated, this tells of a black family's journey from Alabama to Nebraska- leaving behind family and loved ones, leaving the cotton fields behind, to get to a place with more opportunity. The part I never realized about segregation, that it included places like gas stations. I travel a lot and know the feeling of anxiety, when you are getting low on gas, but to have to look for a black gas station... They considered themselves pioneers, coming to the north. I know it came out in one of the WWII historical novels, this migration to the north. Could use more reading on it.