Dimensions
154 x 228 x 20mm
Nine years after Brown v. Board of Education, and only a year before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a judge in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, wrenched twelve year- old Gene Cheek from the security of his mother's devotion. This is a frank account of a love affair between a white woman and a black man that took mother from son and split a family forever. Author Gene Cheek is a blue-collar son of the South. He has lived an unremarkable life with the exception of his children, grandchildren, and his own peculiar childhood. He lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
