Title: Your blues ain't like mine
First published: 1992
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."
Subjects: African Americans, American fiction, Fiction, Race relations, Fiction, historical, Mississippi, fiction, African americans, fiction, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Mississippi
Time periods: 20th century