Publication: Lalee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton

• Froemke, Susan
• Dickson, Deborah

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Follows three generations of African-Americans from
Mississippi as they battle extreme poverty and illiteracy.
Living in a trailer without running water or lights,
matriarch LaLee Wallace watches her grandchildren struggle
in school, paralleling the efforts of the West Tallahatchie
School System to raise standards, attract qualified teachers
and find supplies, or risk takeover by the state. These
intertwined stories are a sober exploration of the painful
legacy of slavery and sharecropping in America's
Mississippi Delta.