Nobody Said Amen: A Novel

(Published as a Morris Jesup Book in association with the Westport Library, Westport, Connecticut)

Written by an intimate participant in the turbulent civil rights movement in Mississippi, Nobody Said Amen tells the stories of two families’ lives, one white, one black, as they navigate the challenging, tilting landscape created by the coming of “outside agitators” and social change to the Mississippi Delta in the 1960s.

Owner of a great plantation, Luke Claybourne is a product of Southern att...