african american veterans

Widowed attorney Penn Cage, having returned with his young daughter to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, finds himself battling the FBI, a powerful judge, a former love, and the citizens of the city when he joins ranks with local publisher Caitlin Masters to solve the mystery of the thirty-year-old murder of an African-American Korean War veteran.

Henry McAllan's wife, Laura, has a hard time adjusting when she moves from the city to a Mississippi farm in 1946. Soon, two brothers-in-arms arrive home from fighting in World War II: Jamie McAllan is charming, handsome, and sensitive to Laura's situation, and Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, tries his best to endure the bigotry he receives now that he is back home.

This book traces the history of blacks in the American military including Black minutemen at Lexington and Concord, Black soldiers who fought in the Civil War, the Buffalo Soldiers, African Americans who fought in the two world wars, and African Americans in today's military.

The shaky marriage between Henry McAllan and his city-bred wife Laura becomes even more unstable when his brother Jamie returns from World War II in 1946 to help work the family's miserable cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta, along with his comrade-in-arms Ronsel Jackson, the oldest son of local sharecroppers, who soon learns that his heroics in battle mean nothing in the Jim Crow south.

The shaky marriage between Henry McAllan and his city-bred wife Laura becomes even more unstable when his brother Jamie returns from World War II in 1946 to help work the family's miserable cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta, along with his comrade-in-arms Ronsel Jackson, the oldest son of local sharecroppers, who soon learns that his heroics in battle mean nothing in the Jim Crow south.

"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--Provided by publisher.

The shaky marriage between Henry McAllan and his city-bred wife Laura becomes even more unstable when his brother Jamie returns from World War II in 1946 to help work the family's miserable cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta, along with his comrade-in-arms Ronsel Jackson, the oldest son of local sharecroppers, who soon learns that his heroics in battle mean nothing in the Jim Crow south.