Midnight Without a Moon (Rose Lee Carter #1)
Linda Williams Jackson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
4.17
· 12 ratings · 325 pages · Published: 03 Jan 2017
It’s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can’t wait to move north. But 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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4.17 · 12 ratings
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