Title: Your blues ain't like mine /
Authors: Campbell, Bebe Moore, 1950-2006.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Race relations Fiction; African Americans Mississippi Fiction.; African Americans Fiction; Mississippi Fiction.
Abstract: 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."