Rubie Bond Relationship

Otto Jorgensen and Rubie Bond

"The decades after the Civil War witnessed a flood of migrants moving beyond the Mississippi River to take up farming. (28, Foner)" There have lots of European move to the United States, Jorgen and his son Otto Jorgensen are not exceptions. They are Danish-American, who moved to Montana in 1906. Jorgensen said many farmers want to the west as part of the community, often based on race. The other one African-American, whose name Rubie Bond, she moved from Mississippi to Beloit, Wisconsin with her parents in 1917. Bond and Jorgensen both from other countries to the US, and they moved there after Civil War, but the difference between them is what the reasons let them move to the US. The reason why Jorgensen moved

When Farnsworth had thoroughly introduced him to what might have happened, he was impatient to go. And he always wants to know what is his father's reactions; then his Pa made he surprised, he saw his Pa reached down to stroke the big old gray tom-cat, and said "Kitty, Kitty!" Jorgensen thought his father very brave, raised enough money to unknown future, like many people before him, he tributed to his father. On the other hand, Rubie Bond as a black woman from Africa to Beloit, her feeling was very different with Jorgensen; she and her families came to the northern city cause there had more opportunities to them, that was her distant cousin John McCord told her. Bond felt some fear when she came to northern cities. She said most of the black people walked thousands of miles to leave the farm in the evening. She also said she felt the black people had lots of inequality between black and white people; although she was a little. "After we came here my mother and dad used to tell me that if I went back to Mississippi, they would hang me to the first tree. (125,

He did not sell much; everything was stuffed into the immigrant car. He was excited about in Montana; he thought there was a magic world because there has cows, calves, chickens, pigs, horses, and dogs, but now he stuffed these things into the immigrant car. When his father's age at 51, take a family of eight children out into the un-tracked prairies fifty miles from the railroad and “nowhere” with measly small capital, took courage and fortitude then have a new start, he would never live in his magic world ever. As for the Rubie Bond, in the beginning, the reason of she came to Beloit is North offered the better opportunities for blacks, they always in dangerous in Mississippi at that time. She said that feeling never changes in her mind which is the blacks inequality. Her thought was going to change, and she thought the matter of trying to exist and trying to improve herself