“Moonrise Over New Jessup” by Jamila Minnicks
All About Books
Air Date: 07/23/2024
While desegregation and integration were hard-won achievements, it’s easily forgotten some black communities in the South chose a different way. The novel “Moonrise Over New Jessup” by Jamila Minnicks follows an Alabama family living in an all-black community during the late 1950s.