Sources of Light by Margaret McMullan

In this book a girl named Sam has to move to Jackson, Mississippi after her fathers death. She goes to school and meets a girl Mary Alice and they become friends. Many people look at her and her mother weird because they think they are going to try and change the ways of the South. In the South they see black and whites as different and Sam thinks they shouldn't be treated differently. In Mississippi many people were violent towards blacks going to the extent of blowing up a bomb in a church. There is no right to descriminate towards people of different race and color we are all people and have feelings.