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After Midnight: A Parchmen Ordeal Story

AFTER MIDNIGHT BRINGS A POWERFUL CIVIL RIGHTS STORY OF COURAGE AND RESILIENCE TO LIGHT Bobby L. Dennis tells a deeply moving historical novel through the eyes of a child, revealing the strength of a community during one of its most painful moments.. Alan J. Cohen, New York, NY, April 15, 2026 — In After Midnight, author Bobby L. Dennis presents a gripping historical novel inspired by real events during the Civil Rights era. Set in 1965, the story centers on a harrowing moment when more than one hundred Black children from Natchez were arrested for marching and taken to the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Their sudden disappearance shook an already divided community and exposed the deep injustices of the time. Told through the perspective of a twelve year old boy who witnesses t...