The Last Matriarch

About 100 years after the emancipation of slaves, life in the south was charming and segregated. This story is set in High Point, North Carolina. Jonnie Mae Dixon, the matriarch in the Black community, role was to maintain order and facilitate the cultivation of the children. Her daughter, Sylvia, wanted to know what started the bootleg war in the fifties. This is the story she was told.