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When Berneen O'Brien's mother dies, the seventeen-year-old moves from Wyoming to Tulsa to live with her stern and distant uncle. Berneen secures a teaching position at Liberty Elementary School. When she meets the principal, Nelson Flowers, she is amazed to find that he is a black man. Slowly, as she meets the other teachers, Berneen realizes that she is teaching in a black school. Her worries about being an outcast soon disappear, as the other teachers make her welcome. Berneen, who is of black Irish descent with black curly hair and olive skin, doesn't realize that the school assumes she is also black.
Over stiff and uncomfortable dinners, Berneen listens to Uncle Quinn's accounts of his experiences at the Battle of Argonne Forest during World War I. She also discovers that he is an opinionated racist - and eventually learns that he is a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Meanwhile at school and after hours Berneen finds herself moving in the world of the segregated Greenwood neighborhood. She goes to clubs and socializes with her fellow teachers, Persephone and Caroline. And she finds herself increasingly drawn to Nelson Flowers, who throws French phrases into his conversation and has a terribly disfiguring scar on his face. Slowly she learns that he too fought in the Argonne - with French troops, since the U.S. Army did not allow blacks as soldiers.
Racial tension is evident as the novel develops, but it erupts into violence when a young white girl accuses a black shoeshine boy of raping her in an office-building elevator. Whites burn Greenwood and storm the neighborhood, shooting and beating black men, women, and children.
Berneen is trapped in the school with Nelson Flowers and the teachers when the mob approaches. The story of their desperate attempts to escape is realistic and frightening, made more so by its historical accuracy.
Over stiff and uncomfortable dinners, Berneen listens to Uncle Quinn's accounts of his experiences at the Battle of Argonne Forest during World War I. She also discovers that he is an opinionated racist - and eventually learns that he is a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Meanwhile at school and after hours Berneen finds herself moving in the world of the segregated Greenwood neighborhood. She goes to clubs and socializes with her fellow teachers, Persephone and Caroline. And she finds herself increasingly drawn to Nelson Flowers, who throws French phrases into his conversation and has a terribly disfiguring scar on his face. Slowly she learns that he too fought in the Argonne - with French troops, since the U.S. Army did not allow blacks as soldiers.
Racial tension is evident as the novel develops, but it erupts into violence when a young white girl accuses a black shoeshine boy of raping her in an office-building elevator. Whites burn Greenwood and storm the neighborhood, shooting and beating black men, women, and children.
Berneen is trapped in the school with Nelson Flowers and the teachers when the mob approaches. The story of their desperate attempts to escape is realistic and frightening, made more so by its historical accuracy.
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Pat Carr has taught English at Rice, Tulane, the University of New Orleans, and several other universities. She is the author of four novels, three nonfiction titles, and four book-length short-story collections. She and her husband have retired to Elkins, Arkansas.
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