![]() Before the boys are separated, Bobby Ray hands Michael a rolled-up sheet of paper with a drawing he made. As the train enters the station in Chattanooga, Tenn., the “WHITES ONLY” sign is put up again in Bobby Ray’s train car. Bobby Ray and Michael play together and draw pictures, enjoying their newfound friendship.īut suddenly everything changes. Michael is surprised when the train pulls into the station in Atlanta, Ga., and the conductor removes the sign that states “COLORED ONLY.” Suddenly, the boy Michael saw earlier runs up to him, and the twosome romp from train car to train car. ![]() But Michael isn’t allowed in the other boy’s train car because it’s for whites only. While Grandma sleeps, Michael wants to explore the train and meet the boy he saw on the platform when he embarked. ![]() Because they live in the segregated South, Michael and Grandma are told to sit in the “colored only” train car. ![]() In this final story in a trilogy of picture books about author Michael Bandy’s experience growing up in the Jim Crow era-the others are White Water and Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box-young readers encounter excited Michael as he embarks on a much-anticipated train ride from Alabama to Ohio with his grandmother to visit his cousins. ![]()
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