What is Yankee girl about?

Answer 1

This story is about a girl Alice Ann Moxley who's family move to Jackson, Mississippi from Chicago. Accent and southern

Custom, it turns out, are the list of troubles in her new hometown. This year is 1964, and her FBI agent father has been sent Jackson to protect black people who are registering to vote. It was in the news that down south the Ku Klux Klan has burned down Negro churches and the civil rights workers have been murdered. A Negro girl named Valerie Taylor joins her sixth grade class - the first of two black student at her new school as a result of a mandatory integration.

Alice entice the popular girls at school, whom she labels the Cheerleaders and whose driving force is the tart-tongued Saran. But when she finds out how hard it is to penetrate the clinque she figures Valerie , being the other outsider, will be easy to make friends with. No such luck, as

Valerie doesn't seem to be looking for friends, rather, valerie silently endures frequent harassment from the cheerleaders, much worse than what Alice is put through, and soon Alice realizes that the only way to befriend saranne and the girls is to seem like a coconspirator in their plans to make Valerie miserable.

Though Alice personally experiences the dangers of racist motivations - her father is not very popular with the KKK- it takes a horrible tragedy for her to realize the complete ramifications of following the crowd instead of her heart.