Monday, January 12, 2015

Revolution

The year is 1964. The state is Mississippi. The town is Greenwood. Change is no longer coming. It's here.
             Sunny and Gillette are celebrating the one-year anniversary of them becoming siblings... by swimming at midnight in the (segregated) town pool. There , Sunny bumps into an African American boy who had the same plans as them. He was wearing white high tops. Sunny decides to figure out more about the boy.

          Raymond was breaking the law, swimming in an all white pool in the middle of the night. The black pool had been drained many years past, and he had never been swimming. Change is coming to his neighborhood. A bunch of college kids from the North have come to Mississippi, and are trying to get blacks to vote. Raymond decides to try. Many years before, his sister had died of a ruptured appendix no white doctor would treat. He hopes she will be the last of her kind. She wasn't the first.

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