Personal Verdict
A Civil Rights Novel
Fiction & Literature, Action Suspense, Mystery & Suspense, Thrillers
| Author: | Ralph Langer | ISBN: | 9781456766955 |
| Publisher: | AuthorHouse | Publication: | May 13, 2011 |
| Imprint: | AuthorHouse | Language: | English |
| Author: | Ralph Langer |
| ISBN: | 9781456766955 |
| Publisher: | AuthorHouse |
| Publication: | May 13, 2011 |
| Imprint: | AuthorHouse |
| Language: | English |
College freshman Jeff Martindales life begins changing almost the instant he meets Rev. Isiah Booker, a former Temple University halfback now active in the nascent Civil Rights Movement. Jeff is from a nearly all-white, small northern Michigan town. Isiahs a Philadelphian, 12 years older and black. Their chance meeting at a casual party on the University of Michigan campus grows from a mutual interest in fly-fishing to full-fledged friendship blended with a mentoring relationship that gradually awakens Jeff to the staggering cruelties of the segregated South, nearly 100 years after the Civil War. Jeff and girlfriend, Susan Adams, volunteer for paper-shuffling duties at the Ann Arbor NAACP, but grow increasingly frustrated with minimal national civil rights progress, even after theyre jailed for joining two Tennessee sit-ins. When unspeakable violence strikes, Jeff shockingly risks his life, his future and Susans love to pursue what only he views as a morally greater cause.
College freshman Jeff Martindales life begins changing almost the instant he meets Rev. Isiah Booker, a former Temple University halfback now active in the nascent Civil Rights Movement. Jeff is from a nearly all-white, small northern Michigan town. Isiahs a Philadelphian, 12 years older and black. Their chance meeting at a casual party on the University of Michigan campus grows from a mutual interest in fly-fishing to full-fledged friendship blended with a mentoring relationship that gradually awakens Jeff to the staggering cruelties of the segregated South, nearly 100 years after the Civil War. Jeff and girlfriend, Susan Adams, volunteer for paper-shuffling duties at the Ann Arbor NAACP, but grow increasingly frustrated with minimal national civil rights progress, even after theyre jailed for joining two Tennessee sit-ins. When unspeakable violence strikes, Jeff shockingly risks his life, his future and Susans love to pursue what only he views as a morally greater cause.
