Live Oak Dead Dreams

by John Sailorman Parker

Many people were doing well, and a few were notoriously living it up during the 1920s. Some of the economic boom sifted down to the small towns of rural Mississippi, but most of it was absorbed by the merchants and land owners, while unskilled laborers still struggled to support themselves. It was even harder for black people who were suffering under Jim Crow laws, segregation, and open racism. William Pitt was lucky. His mother and father possessed marketable skills, and his family was better off than most of the other blacks around Catersville. Lucille Spangler was not so lucky. She lived under the yoke of her contemptible white father and retarded half-brother. She was mixed race and the result of an unsanctioned union that most everyone understood, but never openly acknowledged, to be a rape. When her mother died, Lucy was left in a state of limbo that nobody except Willie Pitt was willing to deal with. Both Willie and Lucy grew up and broke through the bigotry, but their lives fell short of what they could have been.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1694515850
• ISBN13: 9781694515858
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"