The Return of Buddy Bush — Shelia P. Moses

After the death of her grandfather, Pattie Mae Sheals goes to Harlem to visit her sister and experiences an entirely different way of life there, but despite the freedoms of the North, Pattie Mae is determined to track down her uncle and convince him to go back south to face the courts in order to clear his good name of a crime he didn't commit. Reprint.