My father's journey from the south
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My father's journey from the south
His journey led him to the north in Chicago, IL. Where most of the blacks went to be free. A place where they could go and come as they please without being discriminated because of their color.
A place called the windy city. It had a smell in the air that made you want to throw up. Because we stayed near a stock arena where they slaughtered cows and there was rodeos being held there too. As I got older I never ask him what he had to go through to get here. Now, I wonder, did he sleep in the woods, did he go hungry or beg beg for food to eat.
I don't know how we made it without him because he was the one who worked to take care of us. I was only seven at the time, but I can remember that my mother tried to bootleg moonshine. That didn't last long because some white men wearing long trench coats was coming to the house and she threw it out the back door and broke all the bottles of whiskey.
Then she poured flour over it, but that didn't do anything for the smell of it. They came on in looked around looking in each little room The shotgun house didn't have but three rooms. A sitting room, bedroom and a kitchen.
When thinking about it now, I wonder how we made it.
But, my dad found a job saved some money sent to us so we could leave this place . When we arrived in Chicago he was staying with some folks that knew from Mississippi. We only had to stay with them, but a little while and we moved into our own place.
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