A fire rages. Children race to escape the woods being devoured by flames. A white man in a white robe is carried away on a stretcher. Claire, a young, Yankee teacher, and her new husband, Bruce, move from Detroit to Selma, Alabama in 1969 when he joins the Air Force. It doesn’t take long for […]
The Julia Street Series
September 23, 2021 By
A segregated train ride from the Southside of Chicago to South Berkeley, California is only the beginning. Old-time trains and train travel are often romanticized, but Sara’s cross-country ride signals a life-changing ending and a much-needed new beginning. Before she boards a segregated train on the Southside of Chicago, Sara takes the reader on a […]
The Julia Street Series
November 15, 2020 By
A segregated train ride is only the beginning to a story spanning seven decades. In 1943 Sara and Ben Jameson moved their young family from the Southside of Chicago to Berkeley, California dreaming of a better life. What they dreamed of and what they found were worlds apart. In Berkeley, they were greeted with segregated […]
All’s Well That Ends
May 8, 2020 By
A segregated train ride is only the beginning. All’s Well That Ends, the prequel to the Julia Street Series joins Sara Jameson and family as they say goodbye to the Southside of Chicago, leaving behind all the people and places they know and love. Would Berkeley, California provide the new start Sara dreams of? Or […]
