Midnight Without a Moon
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It’s Mississippi in the summertime of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can’t wait to transport north. However for now, she’s residing together with her sharecropper grandparents on a white guy’s cotton plantation.
Then, one the town over, an African American boy, Emmett Until, is killed for allegedly whistling at a white girl. Whilst Until’s murderers are unjustly acquitted, Rose realizes that the South wishes a transformation . . . and that she must be a part of the motion.
Linda Jackson’s transferring debut seamlessly blends a fictional portrait of an African American circle of relatives and actual occasions from a well-known trial that provoked amendment in race family members in the US.
It’s Mississippi in the summertime of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can’t wait to transport north. However for now, she’s residing together with her sharecropper grandparents on a white guy’s cotton plantation.
Then, one the town over, an African American boy, Emmett Until, is killed for allegedly whistling at a white girl. Whilst Until’s murderers are unjustly acquitted, Rose realizes that the South wishes a transformation . . . and that she must be a part of the motion.
Linda Jackson’s transferring debut seamlessly blends a fictional portrait of an African American circle of relatives and actual occasions from a well-known trial that provoked amendment in race family members in the US.
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