You’re taught growing up that all history is recorded and that it’s undisputed fact, whatever is there. But history like this seems to be easily forgotten and skewed. The author Rachel Martin has researched every inch of this and gives us a book full of horror and terror. A very real terror. These things happened completely unchecked and not too long ago.

The story takes place in Clinton, TN in a very rural Appalachian town. Now what some don’t know is this town was the first school in the former confederacy to undergo court mandated desegregation. Not only has she researched but she was able to get first hand accounts from residents and the children that faced the trauma within. A must read to understand the very unhappy times that Black American children faced at the hands of other children and adults in their community.

It’s such an important topic considering most tell these things as if they happens eons ago. When that’s absolutely not true. Information like this should be taught in schools. And the fight must continue to never let things like this happen, of any sort.

Thank you Simon Books for my gifted copy!