Roses in December: Black Life in Hanover County from Civil War to Civil Rights

The inspiring chronicle of a Black community in Virginia fighting for civil rights over the course of a pivotal century

Roses in December is a story of strength, courage, and beauty found in difficult times and the most challenging of circumstances. Beginning in the era of Reconstruction and ending with desegregation, Jody Lynn Allen chronicles the lives of newly freed people and their descendants in Hanover County, Virginia, providing an unprecedented look at rural Black Virginians’ resilie...