The city of Cleveland showed love to a young father with his son. They got over their own racial divides in the fifties; Sicilians married Scots.
Anyone with red hair and blues could pass for Irish. This meant finding jobs.
Whites even showed blacks how to play their own card games, like spades.
But overall the big car manufacturers brought jobs to foreigners all the way from the south. These foreigners were blacks, who settled all the way from Chicago to Niagra Falls. Darryl settled in the projects, the boy's new stepmother, until he would find a job.
By the crack of dawn, he would get in lines with southern blacks and wait for his first, factory work.