Toni Morrison and living in the 1940s Lorain, ohio
Chloe Wofford was born February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio to a shipyard welder father and a religious mother who sang in the church choir. Chloe was the second child of four, had a sister Lois and two younger brothers, George and Raymond. Her parents had moved to Ohio from the South to escape the racism and find a better life in the North . She was excellent student, learning to read a very young age and doing very well at her studies at an integrated school . She had attended at Hawthorne Elementary School, where she was the only black girl in her 1st grade grade classroom and the only student who can read . She was friends with many of her white classmates and did not see any discrimination until she stared dating . Her father wasn't very too fond with the whites because her would get angry impressions from them when he was growing up, which got Chloe not trust them all . She'd hoped to become a dancer like Maria Tallchief. She graduated in honors in 1949. When she attended at Howard University in D.C, where she'd major in English, many people mispronounced her name "Chloe" so much that she changed to "Toni". She graduated from Howard in 1953 with a B.A in English. Wrote her first novel 1970 called "The Bluest Eye". Then wrote numerous of books which got her plenty of awards for her hard work.
There were discrimination in the Lorain ,Ohio. Hundreds and thousands of African Americans moved from the South to North . Most of them were poor and only had a very few little money left. Most had to lived in the same neighborhood , force by racism to live in segregated communities, segregated from the whites . During WW2 , numerous of jobs opened in Northern factories, while some blacks were also enlisted in the armed forces . When Great Migration started , race riots occurred in the Northern States as some whites feared that they would lose their jobs to migrants. Many African Americans and whites united to protest the racism and discrimination, but smaller of them fought for equality. Thousand of African Americans served their country during WW2, realizing that racial discrimination was not nearly oppressive in European countries. Many took jobs that they could have attained without a four- year college degree, then created many organized movement to attain equality .