To Edith L. and William H., two Southern souls, one dimpled, high cheek-boned, the color and aroma of sweet potatoes; the other short, muscular, coffee-color, sans cream, embodiment of gruff love, auraed by cigar-smoke. Fillies, who both joined the great migration North in search of that fabled land of equality, opportunity, and freedom for all.
Up North, the northern tier of a Mason-Dixon line that marked the U.S. Canadian borders, for some African-Americans, was a cold and harsh land that shattered some illusions only to breed others. For the children, it was home. For them, it was the promised land. To them, who scuffled and scraped, to bring their brood a new and better world – to their world which might have been.
These commentaries are recorded by Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio.
