Midnight without a moon

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.

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.