Swear to Howdy

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“A powerful story.”〞
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 AfricanAmerican 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 AfricanAmerican family and factual events from a famous trial that provoked change in race relations in the United States.