Review: Coming of Age in a New Age
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2014
The change in the status of the black population in America was a time fraught with danger for people, both black and white. Sonny Poe was indifferent at best to the plight of the negroes in his town until he witnesses a lynching first hand. This sends the youngster on a dangerous path. He come into contact with a Doctor who is active in the civil rights movement. Jim Crow laws are the order of the day and the fight for true freedom is tearing the town and its people apart.The beauty of reading this for me was that I was a child of the 1960's, living in rural Mississippi and the truth of the tension was portrayed authentically by author Ron Argo. It helps us all remember that there were people on both sides of the color line that experienced tragedy over this issue.Well Done, Ron Argo.