Midnight without a Moon: A Story Set in 1955 Mississippi About a Sharecropper Girl and the Emmett Till Trial for Kids (Ages 10-12)

Midnight without a Moon: A Story Set in 1955 Mississippi About a Sharecropper Girl and the Emmett Till Trial for Kids (Ages 10-12)

<DIV><B><I>Washington Post</I> 2017 KidsPost Summer Book Club selection!</B><BR/><BR/> 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.<BR/><BR/> 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. <BR/><BR/> 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.</DIV>