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Racial segregation and discrimination in the South left Gus unable to find any employment in Nashville aside from the occasional gig as a bellhop. Worse, he struggled with alcoholism.

An opportunity for both gainful employment and an escape from Jim Crow arrived when he and Yolande were offered jobs as house parents at Glenview, as school for Black boys in Cincinnati. The family relocated to Ohio.

Giovanni was only two-months old when her family joined a second wave of Black migrants who moved to the Northeast and the Midwest to escape from racial terrorism and to find work.

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The job at Glenview paid poorly. In 1947, Gus moved the family to Woodlawn, Ohio, a suburb north of Cincinnati, to accept a teaching job at South Woodlawn School. The Giovannis moved again the following year to Wyoming, another suburb near town, because Woodlawn had no primary school for Black children (Giovanni’s sister, Gary Ann, lived briefly with relatives in Columbus to attend school there