Copyright

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York, for reprinted excerpts on pages 403–4 of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s November 28, 1930, Warm Springs, Georgia, radio address, http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/msf/msf00416.

This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Henderson, Eleanor, author.

Title: The twelve-mile straight : a novel / Eleanor Henderson.

Description: First edition. | New York : Ecco, [2017]

Identifiers: LCCN 2016048070 (print) | LCCN 2016058880 (ebook) | ISBN

9780062422088 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780062422101

Subjects: LCSH: Southern States—Race relations—History—20th

century—Fiction. | Southern States—Social life and customs—20th

century—Fiction. | Depressions—1929—Southern States—Fiction. | BISAC:

FICTION / Historical. | GSAFD: Historical fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3608.E5259 T94 2017 (print) | LCC PS3608.E5259 (ebook)

| DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016048070

Digital Edition SEPTEMBER 2017 ISBN 9780062422101

Print ISBN: 978-0-06242208-8