What Are The Similarities Between George Starling And Dr. Robert Pershing Foster
Author Isabel Wilkerson wrote a book detailing the black migration from the south to the urban north and west in hopes of finding a better life for themselves and their families . She interviewed 3 families about their journey on how they got to their destination. My focus is George Starling and Dr. Robert Pershing Foster.
George Starling escaped the citrus fields of Eustis, Florida, and a possible lynch mob when he hopped a train for New York City. Dr. Robert Pershing Foster left Monroe, Louisiana, for Los Angeles, California after every hospital in the South refused to offer a staff position even though he was a successful surgeon in the U.S. Army.
George Starling was a college student due to unfortunate circumstances had to work in a citrus grove in Florida. He had to leave because he was leading a protest asking for higher wages and the people threaten to lynch him. He didn’t have time to say goodbye to the place that made him and was going break him. He left behind his wife Inez. Now he was on the run and would not rest easy until he was out of range of Lake County, beyond the reach of the grove owners whose invisible laws he had broken. He did not …show more content…
His family were bookish, small-boned people and the children of the sawmill hands towered over Robert. The days were his mother did not walk him, he was alone on the streets of New Town. The boys from his fathers’ class would lay and wait on him to come. They would surround him and taunt for the way he carried himself. Eustis, Florida, April 14th,1945 the day George Starling leaves for New York. He had no time for formalities or the seeking of advice because he had to go or else he would be dead. The grove owners of Lake County, Florida were after him. George would be traveling fast and light. He got on the train and never looked
George Starling escaped the citrus fields of Eustis, Florida, and a possible lynch mob when he hopped a train for New York City. Dr. Robert Pershing Foster left Monroe, Louisiana, for Los Angeles, California after every hospital in the South refused to offer a staff position even though he was a successful surgeon in the U.S. Army.
George Starling was a college student due to unfortunate circumstances had to work in a citrus grove in Florida. He had to leave because he was leading a protest asking for higher wages and the people threaten to lynch him. He didn’t have time to say goodbye to the place that made him and was going break him. He left behind his wife Inez. Now he was on the run and would not rest easy until he was out of range of Lake County, beyond the reach of the grove owners whose invisible laws he had broken. He did not …show more content…
His family were bookish, small-boned people and the children of the sawmill hands towered over Robert. The days were his mother did not walk him, he was alone on the streets of New Town. The boys from his fathers’ class would lay and wait on him to come. They would surround him and taunt for the way he carried himself. Eustis, Florida, April 14th,1945 the day George Starling leaves for New York. He had no time for formalities or the seeking of advice because he had to go or else he would be dead. The grove owners of Lake County, Florida were after him. George would be traveling fast and light. He got on the train and never looked