Your blues ain't like mine
By: Bebe Moore Campbell.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: African Americans -- Fiction.; Race relations -- Fiction.; Mississippi -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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."