Your blues ain't like mine
About this book
A fictionalization of the 1955 Emmett Till murder, in which a teenage boy from Chicago was lynched in Mississippi after speaking French in the presence of a young white girl. "Intriguing ... A thoughtful, intelligent work ... The novel traces the yeasr from he '50s to the ate '80s, from Eisenhower to George Bush ... She writes with simple eloquence about small-town life in the South, right after the start of the great social upheaval of he civil rights movement ... Campbell has a strong creative voice."
Details
- First published
- 1992
- OL Work ID
- OL1907418W
Subjects
African AmericansAmerican fictionFictionRace relationsFiction, historicalMississippi, fictionAfrican americans, fictionLarge type booksFiction, historical, general