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Author Greene shares stories of rural Ga. with North Hall students
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Melissa Fay Greene
North Hall High School students met with an award-winning author Thursday to hear stories about the Civil Rights movement in a rural, isolated south Georgia community. Macon native and Georgia Writers Hall of Fame author Melissa Fay Greene shared her experiences of researching for “Praying for Sheetrock” with the high school’s Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate students. “Praying for Sheetrock” describes the racism of McIntosh County on the Georgia coast through the 1970s, long after the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.