Overground Railroad by Lesa Cline-Ransome

Author:Lesa Cline-Ransome
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holiday House

The porters come and move signs

waking Daddy

telling everyone in the colored section

to sit where they want.

We don’t have to stay

in front behind the engine

breathing in smoke

’cause we’re past the line

that divides black from white

south from north

wrong from right.

I wait to move but we wait more.

Finally

Daddy takes my hand and Mama stands

and we walk down the aisle

out the colored car

and through the curtain.

“Next Stop Baltimore, Maryland!”

On the other side of the curtain

is the dining car

with tablecloths

and clinking glasses

and white faces

and good food smells

that make my stomach growl

and make me wish

we hadn’t eaten

Grandma’s fried chicken

and hard boiled eggs

and lemon pound cake

so soon.

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