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Twelve-year old Nellie Lee's family moves north to Chicago hoping to escape the racism of the rural south. Instead, they find themselves faced with a more sinister form of prejudice — hatred within their own race.

		January 2, 1919 Some people are so color struck. They think being light-skinned is better than being dark! Mama says that's nonsense and I think so too. I love it when Mama tells me about her grandmother, Lizzie Palmer. She had been a slave. After the war she was so light skinned, many people thought she was white. But when people asked if she was white, she'd always answer, "No, color me dark." Daddy won't stand for color talk, either. He says a Colored family is like a bouquet of flowers — all different colors, sizes and shapes. But each one beautiful in his or her own way. We only need to look at Daddy's side of the family to see he's telling us the truth. The Love Family is just like the bouquet Daddy described.