Yankee Girl

Its 1964 and Alice has moved to Mississippi from Chicago with her family. Nicknamed Yankee Girl and taunted by the in-crowd at school, Alice soon discovers the other new girl Valerie one of the schools first black students has it much worse. Alice cant stand the way Valerie is treated, and yet she knows she will remain an outsider if she speaks up. It takes a horrible tragedy to finally give Alice the courage to stand up for what she believes. Set in the Deep South in the 1960s, Yankee Girl is a powerful, resonant and relevant story about racism and doing the right thing.