jan 1, 1937 - Life for Ida Mae in the big city.

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They love that they are eligible enough to be in a place where they can be free and experience a life unlike what they were used to before. They arrived expecting it to be what they hoped, which was free land and a variety of jobs but, they basically ended up getting the opposite. In many ways, slowly began showing a few similarities to the way the south did things but, a twist or because they weren't use to the over population of minorities. In the novel "The Warmth of Other Suns" Wilkerson states," With jobs scarce, the old tendency toward intolerance and exclusion reasserted itself. Hiring managers at A. 0. Smith Company, a tank and auto frame factory, said there was no use in colored people applying for jobs there because the company "never did and didn't intend to employ Negroes." Company guards knew to stop colored job seekers at the gates." (Wilkerson 245) Wilkerson briefly explains how the north didn't come easy as they thought it would be, now it's going to be a new set of challenges such as finding jobs. Finding a place to live while a flow of migrants coming from the south as well.

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