Mike Dryden: 2 books

Monroe County Murder is a story about a young black teenager from Chicago who travels to Mississippi in the summer of 1964 to visit his Auntie Carrie. The boy, Teddy, had been raised in urban Chicago and was a leader in his high school class and on the football field. In his whole life, he had never...

The 95th Colored Engineer Regiment is a fictional account of a little-known historical fact; a third of the 10,000 plus US Army troops who built the Alaska-Canada Highway, also known as the Alcan, during WW II were African-Americans from the South. The bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941,...