A review by beatniksafari
Crow by Barbara Wright

4.0

I never knew that the beautiful town of Wilmington, North Carolina housed a truly ugly incident of American history: a race riot that claimed lives and chased out most of the middle-class black population in 1898. This book builds the background of the event through the eyes of inquisitive, sensitive Moses, the son of an African-American alderman who pushes Moses to value education and the power of words. I enjoyed the well-developed characters and strongly described sense of place, though I felt an overly heavy hand in the plot. How could Moses have possibly witnessed ALL the important historical events of the time period?