"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.