“This story is centered around the types of discrimination that black people like Addy ran into in Philadelphia (and other places), including not being allowed to shop or eat in certain stores and having to ride on the outside of the horse-drawn trolly carts.

Her father, because he is black, is turned away from numerous carpentry jobs and ends up driving an ice wagon. (It was a time when people didn't have electrical refrigerators so chunks of ice were used to keep things...”

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