Sweet Alice

In all of her 19 years, Sweet Alice Nelson had never been happy in southwest Mississippi. White people treated her awfully, and there was nothing she could do about it. She had dreamed of getting away, but there was no money for that or anything else. On the last day of August in 1959, however, a strange event occurred, and Sweet Alices life took a turn she didnt expect. A young teacher named Jimm...