Mississippi Mud: A report on Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine By Bebe Moore Campbell I never thought that reading a book would open up my mind like this one did. This book exposed me to all the horrors of the south during the civil rights movement and beyond. It all starts one summer in the fifties in rural Mississippi. Armstrong Todd, a young black man, is sent away to his grandma’s for awhile …showed first 75 words of 852 total…

…showed last 75 words of 852 total…them like real people. Thank god we’ve evolved since then. I don’t know if I could handle life like these people did. If you could call the time they lived a life at all. This book taught me a lot of history about life in the South for a poor white family, a rich white man torn between money and goodness and the injustices that the blacks had to handle during these times.