Daddy Played the Blues [Hardcover]

Six-year-old Cassie squeezes into the backseat of her familys old jalopy, holding Daddys precious guitar across her lap. The year is 1936, and the family is bound for a better life in Chica?go, where Daddy will work six days a week in the stockyards and fill his time off singing the blues. This fictional but histori?cally correct story is set during the Great Migration, a period when thousands of African Americans left the southern states in search of a better life away from share cropping and Jim Crow laws.Packing themselves into an old jalopy along side Daddy, Uncle Vern, and Mama in the front seat and Cassie and her two brothers in the back, the family joined the Great Migration from the impoverished Deep South to Chicago, where there was work to be had in the stockyards. Across the kids' laps lay Daddy's prized possession, a six-string guitar. Daddy worked hard to put food on the table, but what he really loved was playing the blues.