Crossing the Line: An American Civil Rights Novel
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Book Description
Crossing the Line is a novel that revisits Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1950s. Author Rob Hinton tells the story of Jasper Burroughs, a young black man who witnesses the Rosa Park incident, and along with his student friends, works to fight the injustice of segregation.
The reader meets a young minister named Martin Luther King and learns of the critical role that King played in the early days of the civil rights movement.
The story's message and the lessons learned by Jasper during this turbulent time are just as relevant today as they were back then. Educational and entertaining, this historical novel is recommended reading for young adults and up.
About the Author
Rob Hinton resides in Las Cruces, New Mexico and is on the staff of the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum. He is a long time reader who has always enjoyed stories that relate the drama of history and the everyday people who unknowingly take part in its making. His passion for history coupled with a love of fiction that depicts the emotions experienced by ordinary people during extraordinary times compelled him to try his hand at writing historical novels.
Crossing the Line is his literary debut and it is intended to provide readers with an opportunity to glimpse beyond the bare facts of the historical record and experience a young man's emotional tension during one of the most pivotal episodes of social revolution during the twentieth century.
Crossing the Line: An American Civil Rights Novel,Rob Hinton,Barbed Wire Publishing,0972303294,Fiction - Historical,Historical - General,Humor
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