The Ballad of Little River: A Tale of Race and Restless Youth in the Rural South
The Ballad of Little River: A Tale of Race and Restless Youth in the Rural South By Paul Hemphill
2000 | 235 Pages | ISBN: 0684856824 | EPUB | 3 MB
2000 | 235 Pages | ISBN: 0684856824 | EPUB | 3 MB
xcept for a massacre of five hundred settlers by renegade Creek Indians in the early 1800s, not much bad had happened during two centuries in Little River, Alabama, an obscure Lost Colony in the swampy woodlands of To Kill a Mockingbird country. "We're stuck down here being poor together" is how one native described the hamlet of about two hundred people, half black and half white. But in 1997, racial violence hit Little River like a thunderclap. A young black man was killed while trying to break into a white family's trailer at night, a beloved white store owner was nearly bludgeoned to death by a black ex-convict, and finally a marauding band of white kids torched a black church and vandalized another during a drunken wilding soon after a Ku Klux Klan rally.