Grandma tells the tale of how once, when she was a girl, she mistook the "Whites Only" sign on a water fountain to mean white socks only, and her encounter with racism that followed. Reprint. Smithsonian Magazine Notable Book for Children.[...]
When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier. Includes a brief overview of the experiences of African Americans[...]