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Madison Foster was the head of the regional Black high school, and his wife Ottie was a longtime teacher in this place. The Fosters were a high-opinion and avid couple, although doing less than half of what white teachers in the field won. Madison, who was their eldest son, was sent to medical school, an amazing feat for a Black family in the South, and had evenly high expectations for his younger brother Pershing. Although Pershing was a great student, growing up in the darkness of his smart sibling was not always simple. Due to his wanting of differentiating himself, he enhanced an enthusiastic, extroverted attraction that would later unlock many doors for him. Because of some pressure from his family, he was sent to Atlanta in 1937 to join the prestigious, all-Black Morehouse College. There he not only exceeded his bachelor degree education but also influenced the hearts of the College chairman's girl, Alice Clement. Later, they made a wedding and got married, and Alice bred two daughters. Unfortunately, Pershing could not see much of his young family over the following few years. After Morehouse, he went to Meharry Medical College in Nashville and left Alice with his family in Atlanta. Following medical school, he had to report for military obligation in Texas and was ultimately settled in a field in Austria. There he got fame being an attractive and smart young surgeon. When he came back to Louisiana, the foolishness of Jim Crow constraints in the South drew him attention. He was a great military surgeon abroad. However, he was not even permitted to practice at the regional hospital in Fort Polk, where he was discharged. He felt it was time to go, and he had an area in his brain: Los Angeles. Hollywood charm appeared well suited to her noisy personality. And in California, he would have the liberty to be as perfect at his work since he desired. Pershing departed lonely by car in the summer of 1953. He only had a dollar in his pocket when he entered Los Angeles. However, his heart was entire of hope - this was an area where he could guide the life he desired. He even switched his name to drop the last remnants of its southern culture. From now on, he would be called Robert Pershing Foster. Chapter 5 - In Chicago, the person who became a member of the novel civic Black employee class was Ida Mae. When it was walked from the train terminal to Chicago's busy streets by Ida Mae for the initial time, the city seemed "paradise" to her. She had never observed so many human beings at the same time! For presently, but Chicago was not the last target for Ida Mae and her young family. They were going to Milwaukee, where her sister would pick them up. For several months, the family made a trial to place down in Milwaukee. Unluckily, they had reached the height of the Great Depression. This described that even the hard, low-salary works in steel mills and abattoirs that were typically proposed to Black immigrants became limited. When Ida Mae returned to Mississippi for a few months to breed her third and last child, it was decided to try her fortune in Chicago by George. He got work helping an ice seller, and the average salary permitted him to rent a one-bedroom cellarage flat in the city. He was followed by Ida Mae and the kids quickly thereafter. At the time, so many Black immigrants were coming to Chicago that the town was crowded. The white neighborhoods have closed themselves, which suggested fresh strangers had to move from one small, high-expensive apartment to another. Moreover, newcomers from the South were not welcomed by white employee-class aliens and Northern-born Black human-beings. By many of them, it worked like servants, cleaners, porters, and housemaids on the service businesses - they were not very happy with the added race. Southern women had a particularly hard time finding jobs hence they were viewed as being less proper for industrial jobs than men, and both unschooled. Some were pushed to trade their employment in virtual "slave markets" on street edges, and white women offered to do housework for as little as 15 cents an hour. Eventually, the person who got work as a hospital assistant at Walther Memorial on Chicago's West End was Ida Mae. Presently, a little nicer flat was relocated and settled into their fresh town life by her and George. It did not appear as they lived much more comfortably than before. However, in the South, they made some intangible earnings they could never have dreamed. For instance, in the 1940 presidential election between Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Republican rival, the person who balloted for the initial time in her life was Ida Mae. Chapter 6 - The person who witnessed the Great Migration was George who operated as a worker in charge of a train in New York. The place that was not similar to anything George Starling had seen before was New York Harlem. First established as a community of ex-slaves in the nineteenth century, when it reached New York in 1945, it occurred at the core of Black cultural life. And even apartments are crowded and living expenses are costly, Harlem's lively street life made George assume liberation for the initial time. After staying at his aunt's house for a while, he managed to get work on the railroad and quickly found his small flat in the neighborhood. George was now operating as a person in charge of trains on trains, just like he bought them from Florida. For decades, he visited between the North and South several times a week, escorting thousands of immigrants like him on their trip. His formal duty was to assist individuals with their baggage and indicate them up to their sitting places. However, he served twice as an advisor and guided for the fresh globe to Black immigrants from the South by him. He was also amazed at everything they brought with them from the Old Village. Once it was carried a large watermelon in her hat-box by an older woman. Inez attended to George a few months after his arrival in New York and promptly got a job as a nurse. Quickly the couple lived with their two kids named Gerard and Sonya in a small flat in Harlem. Although his work steadily recalled him of his stems, George was terrified of traveling the South for a long time. In December 1951, he took a painful reminder not of why he left. A bomb planted in the home of Harry Moore killed him who was a friend from Eustis, a past NAACP promoter. The severity and terror of the Jim Crow South never actually left George. He would keep going to retreat into the system in little, straight ways in his daily life. For instance, when the urban rights movement was in whole motion, it was used by him for his work to raise funds for some reason. And after the 1964 Civil Rights Act eventually banned discrimination in all fields of civil life, Black passengers on the train were promoted to demand their rights to fair treatment by George. Chapter 7 - Robert's name was heard in Los Angeles as a well-known and respected doctor. Although Robert quickly fell in love with Los Angeles, he faced some initial challenges in the fresh globe before discovering his way like many Black newcomers from the South. Initially, he had to earn sufficient money to transport his wife and daughters to California. And after a few years living in Alice's family villa in Atlanta, he understood they expected some comfort. Robert's primary work was as a medical inspector at a Black insurance firm - a job well under his specialty. Fundamentally, his job was to get around Los Angeles and gather urine samples from the firm's clients. Yet thanks to his attractiveness, he has built a patient base of his own, using much of this humiliating work to appeal. When it was felt by him that he had a fixed base for his medical practice, he rented office space and a modest flat and asked his wife and kids to eventually attend him. However, when they came, Robert and his wife had to take into account that during their 12-year marriage, they didn't spend much time together. Aside from receiving fancy dinner parties for the novel Los Angeles social circles, they had limited general field of interests. Unlike his difficult marriage, Robert's career was enhancing. Individuals from all over Los Angeles were coming to be healed by him. Now it could be afforded by him a large, luxurious home for his family, and deal with more meaningless things like buying a Cadillac and gambling. His fame kept going to grow. For example, one night in 1961, a panicked woman made a phone call with Robert: her husband cut his hand badly on a glass desk and was missing a terrible amount of blood. It turned out that the woman's husband was none other than the excellent Ray Charles. Robert straightened the popular musician's hand and even escorted him on his next round to heal the wound. It ended like this in Ray Charles's song Hide nor Hair from 1962: However, since she left, I haven't seen my hiding 'nor the hair of my baby. If Dr. Foster caught her, and later, I comprehend I'm done because he has drugs and money. Thanks to Ray Charles' song, Robert and his achievement tale were immortalized. He came from a Southern town that did not permit him to practice his ability and became one of Hollywood's most prosperous surgeons. Chapter 8 - For most Black Southerners, the North was not the light-hearted country of their images.