Chronicles the attempts by Civil Right's organizers across the nation to secure voting rights for African-Americans in Mississippi during the summer of 1963.
Con artists Kidd and Luellen target the small town of Longstreet, Mississippi, at the request of an African American rights activist, to get the mayor to resign, and their plan seems perfect until murder, scandal, and love get in the way.
Abigail was the last keeper of the house and the last to know the Howland family's secrets. Now in the name of her family, she must take bitter revenge on the small-minded Southern town that shamed them but could not destroy them.
Fourteen-year-old Holly Fay Lovell leaves the small southern town where she lives with her mother, a seamstress, in order to pursue her dream of a singing career, not knowing the whole truth about her humble beginnings.
Joe Duckett, having escaped slavery to join the Union Army, becomes a hero in his regiment, but his most dangerous task is still before him when he makes plans to return to the plantation from which he fled to claim his wife and daughter.
A group of friends believe they have found their mission in life when one of their older brothers is murdered in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, and they begin receiving letters from him, seemingly written after his death.
The life of Jewel Hilburn, a mother living with her husband and children in the backwoods of Mississippi in 1943, undergoes a drastic change when her sixth child, Brenda Kay, is born without the gift of common sense.
