“A powerful story.” —Kirkus Reviews It’s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can’t wait to move north. For now, she’s living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man’s cotton plantation. Then, one town over, an African American boy, Emmett Till, is killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. When Till’s murderers are unjustly acquitted, Rose realizes that the South needs a change and that she should be part of the movement. Linda Jackson’s moving debut seamlessly blends a fictional portrait of an African American family and factual events from a famous trial that provoked change in race relations in the United States.
Author: Linda Williams Jackson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 12/05/2017
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781328753632
Language: English
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