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Mississippi trial, 1955

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Publisher
Speak/Penguin Group
Language
English
Published
2003
  • Race relations
  • Murder
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Fathers and sons
  • Racism
  • Grandfathers
  • Fiction
  • African Americans

In Mississippi in 1955, a sixteen-year-old finds himself at odds with his grandfather over issues surrounding the kidnapping and murder of a fourteen-year-old African American from Chicago.