Break and Run

For the average young black man growing up in thesouthern United States during the 60s was to realizethat the oppressive Jim Crow laws that dehumanizedand degraded black people and their ancestors of thepast, was still very much enacted and very active inand around Crawford. A southern rural Communityapproximately 10 miles west of Phenix City, Alabamathe unchallenged idea of prevalence in the whitesociety had uncompromising and terrible physicalrebuttal for its victims.Bobby L. Hodge, Jr. Has attempted to illustrate avery diabolical but realistic fiction depicting the life andtimes of Jesse Hodge during the tremulous times ofhis life, Faced with oppression, Jesse was rebelliousand criminally cunning. Determined by his fate to livea life on his own terms, he constantly found himself ina desperate attempt to elude the law, but his lessthan evasive karma surrounding the life in which hehad created for himself was too great to overcome