In 1922 everything changed again. The Eskimo pie was invented; James Joyce’s Ulysses was printed in Paris; snow fell on Mauna Loa, Hawaii; Babe Ruth signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees; Eugene...

‘Sugar, aint you ever had no good time?’ she said with a bit of sadness in her voice. ‘What you mean?’ Sugar said,…’Seems to me that I ain’t never see you look up from whatever...

J.W. and Roy didn’t just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.