A new novel, Colorblind: A Novel, by author Leah Harper Bowron, takes readers on a journey to 1968 Montgomery, Alabama, a time when discrimination was rampant and the courage to stand against hate could cost everything.
A Story of Resilience
The novel follows two characters: Miss Annie Loomis, the first African-American teacher at the all-white Wyatt Elementary School, and Lisa Parker, an eleven-year-old Caucasian student born with a cleft palate and lip. Though separated by race, circumstance, and age, Miss Annie and Lisa find themselves bound by the shared weight of being seen as different, and the extraordinary courage it takes to survive it.
Bowron’s storytelling is precise, unflinching, and deeply humane, illuminating the 1960s Civil Rights era not as distant history, but as a mirror held up to the present. The title Colorblind captures the novel’s central thesis: that the pain wrought by hate can only be dismantled through compassion, empathy, and the moral courage to challenge injustice wherever it lives.
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