American South

This is a zine about the American South and the questions that arise in trying to define it and people who love it and people who left as soon as they could *

Mildred Johnson is orphaned when her parents are killed in a violent protest for voting rights in the South in the 1950s. Her aunt takes her to Chicago, where, years later the two join a campaign to elect the city's first black mayor. When Mildred falls for the head of a grassroots organization involved in a voter registration drive, she is taken down a path of self-discovery as she learns the truth about her and Aunt Rose's past.