I actually don't know what happened to the African American communities of Northern small towns, but I do know: 1. The little New England town where my Dad grew up had an African-American family in it at that time. This wasn't the case when I was growing up there thirty years later. 2. There was an African American community in the town where I work. This community also vanished sometime in the first half of the twentieth century. 3. Again in the town where I work, the KKK was active in the 1920s. They burned a cross on the lawn of the Catholic church in 1924.
Of course, it would not be at all unusual to have an African or African American scientist living with her husband in a New England farming town today. So the director has probably changed either the setting, or the timeframe, or both.
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Date: 2017-04-04 10:05 pm (UTC)1. The little New England town where my Dad grew up had an African-American family in it at that time. This wasn't the case when I was growing up there thirty years later.
2. There was an African American community in the town where I work. This community also vanished sometime in the first half of the twentieth century.
3. Again in the town where I work, the KKK was active in the 1920s. They burned a cross on the lawn of the Catholic church in 1924.
Of course, it would not be at all unusual to have an African or African American scientist living with her husband in a New England farming town today. So the director has probably changed either the setting, or the timeframe, or both.
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