A TIME OF TERROR. A SURVIVOR'S STORY - Tecno-Libro

i had done nothing that could really be called bad. i had been foolish, yes, but i had not done anything bad. The trouble was, this was Marion, indiana, where there was very little room for foolish black boys. On a sweltering August night in 1930, two older boys invited sixteen-year-old Jimmie Cameron for what they said would be a joyride. instead, they held up a young white couple parked in a remote Lover s Lane. The stickup went horribly wrong. The boys were arrested, dragged from jail by a mob, and lynched on the courthouse lawn before thousands of spectators. Miraculously, Cameron lived to tell the story. He began writing his account while still a teenager, traumatized by the lynching and confined in a maximum-security adult prison. A talented storyteller, Cameron shows us the humor and horror of coming of age as a black child during the Jim Crow era. Populated by unforgettable characters both kind and cruel, A Time of Terror is a p