"The story of Blue Jenkins, an African American who grew up in Depression-era Racine. Blue experienced, both personally and as a part of the black community near Milwaukee, the exodus of former farm laborers from the South seeking jobs in Northern manufacturing. He attended pre-civil rights movement public schools, and experienced racism: the Ku Klux Klan hung a black figure in effigy from a tree in the Jenkins family's yard. Jenkins played semi-pro...