Mississippi trial, 1955

About this book

In Mississippi in 1955, a sixteen-year-old finds himself at odds with his grandfather over issues surrounding the kidnapping and murder of a fourteen-year-old African American from Chicago.

Subjects

  • african americans
  • african americans, fiction
  • children's fiction
  • fathers and sons
  • fiction
  • grandfathers
  • grandparents, fiction
  • juvenile fiction
  • mississippi, fiction
  • murder
  • race relations
  • race relations, fiction
  • racism
  • reading level-grade 10
  • reading level-grade 11
  • reading level-grade 12
  • reading level-grade 7
  • reading level-grade 8
  • reading level-grade 9