The Colour of Home

Author/Guide: Tammye Huf

Why a Booktrail?

1941: ‘You want to risk everything – for a country that’s never cared if you live or die?’

ISBN: 978-0857507754
Genre: Fiction, Historical, Inspired by true events

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What you need to know before your trail

In a segregated Florida town, three young Black men enlist to fight for a freedom they’ve never known at home.

Before they leave, Cora marries in haste to secure her future – but her heart remains divided between the man she wed and the man she truly loves.

1945: As war finally ends, everything shifts. The boys Cora knew return as men she barely recognises, carrying scars no one can see – and truths that threaten to unravel everything Cora has fought to hold together.

Locations

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America/ USA - Florida
A: Overtown/Colored Town
B: New Smyrna Beach - Mary S. Harrell Black Heritage Museum
C: Ocoee

Travel Guide

Florida and the Jim Crow laws

Segregation in Florida was enforced statewide by Jim Crow laws from 1865 until 1967. It dictated every aspect of public life from where Black residents could live, learn, travel, to where they could socialize.

Black populations were systematically confined to specific areas. In Miami, this included areas like Colored Town (now Overtown)

In extreme cases, racial segregation and inequality were enforced by violent mobs – Ocoee massacre in 1920 involved a white mob attack African-American residents in the northern parts of the region.