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Charles Pointer introduces his novel A Time To Remember featuring 15 of his paintings showing historic highlights of the 1960’s civil rights movement. The novel centers around Kobe Wilson, owner of...ver maisCharles Pointer introduces his novel A Time To Remember featuring 15 of his paintings showing historic highlights of the 1960’s civil rights movement. The novel centers around Kobe Wilson, owner of a big plantation, and Peter Carol, a black sharecropper, his wife Sarah, and their son John Carol. They enjoyed a good relationship with Kobe until he died. Big Jim took control of the family business and cheated the black and white sharecroppers out of their money, charging lower prices for their crops. Big Jim’s family consisted of Betty, Sandy, and Kirby who had political ambitions like his father but wanted to see equal rights given to the sharecroppers. Big Jim would not stand for this and to make matters worse John ran off with his daughter Betty after he got her pregnant .Big Jim did his best to find them. Big Jim’s womanizing made his wife Mable leave him and he took up with a black woman named Polly who he loved and tried to keep their love affair a secret. In Betty’s relationship with John two daughters are born, Dianna who is white and Dora who is black. Betty raises Dianna, and Dora is raised by Lilly a black doctor.They participate in sports events against each other with out knowing it. John is caught and the judge puts him in the army and he sent to Korea to face Big Jim’s military friends loyal to him. John comes home a war hero and goes through changes getting a college education to integrate a college which did not accept black people.To get even with Senator Big Jim Wilson to give the farmer a fair deal, John decided to take Big Jim’s senate seat from him and after two attempts he wins. The book will show Big Jim was a dirty politician and did what ever it took to win even if his opponent would be assassinated in the end.The book will show excitement, romance, bravery, forgiveness, and people grouping to form their own political parties to elect people to represent their needs to build a better Mississippi.ver menos
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A Time to Remember Autobiography of Charles Henry Pointer: His Life His Legacy Nota: 0 de 5 estrelas0 notas