Everyone is thrilled and delighted when Nora White, at seventeen, successfully completes high school in 1922 Mississippi and is headed for college. Everyone but Nora. She dreams about Langston Hughes, Cotton Clubs, Fancy Dresses, and Harlem. She has daydreamed about The Black Mecca for years as she sat beneath Mr. Oak, the large oak tree on the beautiful green grass of her family's five acres. The ambitious, young Nora is fascinated by the...