Magnolias Don't Bloom in September

Kenda a naïve teacher from upstate New York journeys to Mississippi in 1970 on a quest to change the world and escape an abusive fiancé. When she starts working at a newly integrated junior high school Kenda is greeted with a Confederate flag and a Yankee Go Home sign. She quickly learns that even when equality becomes the law culture prevails--a culture she knows little about. Her challenges go beyond the classroom. Her teachers salary isnt enough to pay the rent; she moonlights in a hospital lab. Over time Kenda learns the ways of the segregated South through friendships she creates in unlikely places. Kendas persistence sees her through challenges and even a lawsuit and her new friends offer unexpected wisdom and understanding. She makes a difference in her students lives and they change her. Even though magnolias dont bloom in September they do blossom in their own season just as Kenda and her students do.