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Your blues ain't like mine by Bebe Moore Campbell · Booklabria

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Your blues ain't like mine

HistoricalAfrican Americans

Your blues ain't like mine

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First published: 1992
Language: English
Editions: 8

Synopsis

A fictionalization of the 1955 Emmett Till murder, in which a teenage boy from Chicago was lynched in Mississippi after speaking French in the presence of a young white girl. "Intriguing ... A thoughtful, intelligent work ... The novel traces the yeasr from he '50s to the ate '80s, from Eisenhower to George Bush ... She writes with simple eloquence about small-town life in the South, right after the start of the great social upheaval of he civil rights movement ... Campbell has a strong creative voice."

Subjects: Historical
African Americans
Race relations
Mississippi
Set in: Mississippi
Time: 20th Century

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