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Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
- Civil Rights Movement
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Set in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 and 1963, the novel places the Black domestic workers' stories against the civil rights movement, including the murder of Medgar Evers in the same city.
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