As a teenaged bride in 1964, Peggy Allbritton thought marriage to Lloyd Morgan would deliver her from the poverty, neglect, and abuse of her childhood in rural Mississippi. Handsome and older, Lloyd would be the provider and caregiver that her father, Gene, never was. And above all, Peggy would not allow herself and her children to be victimized by violence as she and her mother, Inez, had been at Gene's hands.

What Peggy Morgan could not know, as she said her vows before a justice of the peace, was that she had taken the first steps on a path that paralelled her mother's in every way- poverty, neglect, and abuse. But even more cruel, Peggy also would be exposed to the worst aspects of racial violence in a South embroiled in the Civil Rights Movement. For just as Inez had known the identities of the murderers of the young Emmet Till, Peggy would hear the confession of the assassin who shot and killed Medgar Evers. For both women, the burden of such knowlege would exact a terrible penance. 

Carolyn Haines' first work of nonfiction is a penetrating and shocking indictment of racial and domestic violence in the Real South of the 1960's, seen through the eyes of a remarkable woman who survived to testify for truth and justice.

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