Description

One Family, One State One People: Renaissance in Mississippi is a family history and memoir paying tribute to a resilient African-American family navigationg the harsh realities of Jim Crow America during the 1940’s through the 1960’s in Newton County Mississippi.  The book examines the history of Mississippi and its systemic failures in the aftermath of Reconstruction, tracing the long struggle for justice until meaningful legal change finally emerged more than a century later during the Civil Rights era in the mid to late 1960’s.