A Journey into Mississippi's Dark Past

A Journey into Mississippi's dark past by W. Ralph Eubanks

Summary of the Book

Eubanks' individual narrative about growing up in the segregated South turns accepted insight on its head. He really had, to a large degree, an idyllic childhood on a ranch out-of-doors Mount Olive, Mississippi. His protected world was shattered only when his class became the first to integrate the localized school.

To explore for the reality about his parents (placed on the watch register only because they were educated very dark people) directs Eubanks to his own reconciliation with the world he left behind a quarter of 100 years before. Eventually, the responses his children's inquiries about Mississippi by taking a family journey to the state and reconnecting them to the country origins that are an integral part of his character (Eubanks, 2005, 25-196).

Analysis and Evaluation

While Eubanks was reading Faulkner, Peggy Morgan was dwelling a Faulkner novel. Like Ever Is a Long Time, this is a publication about the reality and the bravery to battle it. Poor, white and uneducated, Morgan increased up in a large family overridden by an abusive, alcohol-dependent father. In the communal strata of the vintage South, only blacks were smaller than Morgan's family.

Haines, a previous reporter who has in writing many books, depicts Morgan's labours to overwhelm the misuse that pursued her from childhood into her own wedding ceremony with Lloyd Morgan, which finally completed in abandonment and disaster.

Morgan and her mother each held a mystery associated to the municipal privileges struggle. According to Morgan, her mother past away bearing the information of who slain Emmett Till, a juvenile very dark man from Chicago who was lynched in 1955 after supposedly whistling at a white woman. Morgan herself had data about the killing of Medgar Evers, municipal privileges foremost that ...