Ain't No Sunshine
Author: Leslie DuBois
Desc: Whites Only. Those words adorned every building in Livingston Virginia during the summer of 1963 confusing and angering five-year-old Stephen Phillips. Those words told him that what he felt for his colored neighbor Ruthie was wrong. As a teenager Ruthie becomes the only ray of sunshine in his abusive life and he is not willing to let her go without a fight a fight that could lead to murder.