A narrative of the events of 1978 in McIntosh County, Georgia, when the first black man was elected as a county commissioner.
Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white sheriff still wielded all the power,...
An inspiring and absorbing account of the struggle for human dignity and racial equality (Coretta Scott King)