Foote Switch: An Untold Love Story

By Mandel Stoker

In late summer of 1919 Lemmel Walters left Chicago to become romantically involved with a young white lady named Meagan Reese from Kilgore, Texas. As he made his way by train to his new destination Lemmel Walters had no idea that this love affair would leave a trail of tears, bloodshed and one of biggest cover ups in East Texas history. Emerging from the East Texas Piney Woods just a few miles south of Longview, Texas in a small rural community call "Foote Switch" or better known by the Negro population as "Footsie Bottom" comes a gripping love story and murder cover up of two young people whose romantic involvement being taboo for that era refused to bow to the status quo of the day costs a young Mr. Walters his life. In a backdrop of racial hatred and violence the love of two young people prevails and lives to inspire others.The racial unrest of the time would come between them and spark a race riot and foster one of the greatest cover ups of racial injustice in Texas. This Twentieth Century Romeo and Juliet love story set off a fire storm of race riots in Longview and East Texas that even today people still want to forget.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692262083
• ISBN13: 9780692262085
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Stoker Publishing Group, The
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"