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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Jackson, Linda Williams
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| Publisher: |
Clarion Books
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| Date: |
12/5/2017
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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"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.
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