Jonathan Odell is a novelist, essayist, and lecturer on issues of race and civil rights.  On the day Jonathan was born in 1951 in Laurel, Mississippi, Willy McGhee, a black man, was being lynched two blocks away at the county courthouse to the cheers of a thousand on-lookers.  In the years since then, Jonathan's experiences growing up in the segregated Jim Crow South have lead him to a career of writing, speaking, and counseling on the tenuous relations between whites and blacks in America.

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