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Sources of light
Margaret McMullan

Sources of light

Harcourt (Apr 12, 2010)
9780547076591
| Hardcover
233 pages | 133 x 210 mm | English
Dewey 1004
LC Classification PZ7.M4787923 .So 2010
LC Control No. 2009049708

Genre

  • Kids (12 & Under)
  • Kids: Middle Grade
  • Romance

Subject

  • Coming Of Age - Fiction
  • Mississippi - History - Fiction
  • Photography - Fiction
  • Race Relations - Fiction
  • Segregation - Fiction

Plot

It's 1962, a year after the death of Sam's father--he was a war hero--and Sam and her mother must move, along with their very liberal views, to Jackson, Mississippi, her father's conservative hometown. Needless to say, they don't quite fit in. People like the McLemores fear that Sam, her mother, and her mother's artist friend, Perry, are in the South to "agitate" and to shake up the dividing lines between black and white and blur it all to grey. As racial injustices ensue--sit-ins and run-ins with secret white supremacists--Sam learns to focus with her camera lens to bring forth the social injustice out of the darkness and into the light.