“Negro kids as young as three preferred white dolls over colored ones. Thought they were prettier and smarter. That’s what finally shot down the idea of separate but equal. Children growing up seeing themselves as dirty and dumb.” A quote from the historical novel Tazia and Gemma. After the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City, an unwed immigrant and her young daughter flee west in search of freedom and encounter racism in Kansas in the early 1900s. Read more about the book in NOVELS.
