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Sept. 2003. 256p. illus. Basic, $26 (0-7382-0570-2). 305.8.
Eubanks' fond memories of growing up in Mount Olive, Mississippi, in the 1960s were tinged with a reality he was loathe to admit until his young sons began asking about his childhood home. The innocent inquiries of his mixed-race children sent Eubanks exploring the darker side of life in the rural community during the turbulent civil rights era. His father, a county agent, and his mother, a schoolteacher, raised their four children on an 80-acre farm they owned to shield them from most of the racial indignities visited on ...