Download or read book Beyond the Alley written by Lj Thomas and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Alley is a book about 60 or more sharecroppers' families that lived on plantation land in an alley in a southern town call Natchez, Mississippi from the late 1800's. This compelling story is about family love, forgiveness, friendships, family gatherings, spirituality, harvesting, fornication, adultery, murders, rapes and endurance in the south when racism was at it highest level. In 1973 several of the families in the alley began to migrate to the North and West to seek better living conditions and education but never lost the love and communications that held them together through tough times. The elders were strong and dominant and secrets went to the grave.