A Time ⏱️ of Terror. A Survivor.s Story

✅ “I had done ⌛️ nothing that could really be called 📞 bad 👎️. I had been foolish, yes, but I had not ❌️ done ⌛️ anything bad 👎️. The trouble was, this was Marion, Indiana, where there was very ❗️ little room for foolish black ⚫️ boys 👦.”On a sweltering August night 🌃 in 1️⃣9️⃣3️⃣0️⃣, two 2️⃣ older boys 👦 invited sixteen-year-old 🧓 Jimmie Cameron for what they said 💬 would be a joyride. Instead, they held up ⬆️ a young 👶 white ⚪️ couple 👫 parked 🏞️ in a remote Lover’s Lane. The stickup went ➡️ horribly wrong. The boys 👦 were arrested, dragged from jail by a mob, and ➕ lynched on the courthouse 🏛️ lawn before thousands of spectators. Miraculously, Cameron lived to 🗣️ tell the story.He began 🆕 writing ✍️ his 👤👨⬅️ account while still a teenager, traumatized by the lynching and ➕ confined in a maximum-security adult 🧑 prison. A talented storyteller, Cameron shows us 👥⬅️ the humor and ➕ horror of coming ⤵️ of age as a black ⚫️ child 🧒 during the Jim Crow era. Populated by unforgettable characters both kind and ➕ cruel, A Time ⏱️ of Terror is a poignant story of anger 🗯️ and ➕ courage, forgiveness and ➕ redemption.The memoir ends 🔚 when Cameron leaves 🍃 prison at age twenty-one 1️⃣, vowing to “pick ⛏️ up ⬆️ the loose ends 🔚 of my life 🧬 and ➕ weave them ➡️👥 into something beautiful, worthwhile, and ➕ God-like.” The book 📚️’s Afterword by his 👤👨⬅️ protégé Reggie Jackson describes what Cameron accomplished in his 👤👨⬅️ next seventy-one 1️⃣ years as a civil rights ➡️ pioneer, working ⚙️ man 👤👨, self-taught historian, writer ✍️, father 🎅 of five 5️⃣, and ➕ founder of America’s Black ⚫️ Holocaust Museum.The 3️⃣rd edition includes never-before-published chapters. It...

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