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In the summer of 1961, black and white Freedom Riders from all over
the U.S. converged on Jackson, Mississippi in a campaign to force
the desegregation of public transportation and public facilities.
Buses were burned. Some Riders were beaten almost to death. They
were jailed by the hundreds, and they rocked the conscience of the
nation. In this compelling coming-of-age novel, when the first
Freedom Ride rolls into Jackson, one Mississippi white boy, Tommy
Jackson, is watching and waiting. His young life was already turned
upside down by the arrival of rock and roll and by his first-hand
exposure to the racial violence that ruled his hometown. When he
sees the Freedom Riders, he stops being a silent witness and takes
action, hoping to redeem his guilty conscience and join a community
of like-minded souls. Instead he finds there is no escaping the
past.White Boy depicts the world seen in the 2009 best-seller, The
Help, but from a grittier working-class perspective.
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