Hope of Glory

About the Book

Hope of Glory takes us to the Deep South where social and political mores rule over laws and where descendants of slaves may not be socially equal, but they are not socially inferior. It’s about a Southern white newspaper editor who believes in and does, regardless of cost, what he can to ensure equal rights for all. He marries a Southern lady, the younger sister of a US senator, whose social, political, and family position give him power in the choice of governor, a man the editor considers politically dangerous. As expected, the senator uses his sister to try to control the editor. Add the death threat to the visit of northern racist to the killing of the editor’s father and damage to the editor’s home, and you have dissention between the editor and his wife. Woven throughout the story is insight into how blacks melded their lives into the Deep South by using what their ancestors brought from Africa. And all this story was written by a Southern lady who spent eighty years observing it firsthand.

About the Author

Carolyn Scanlon Newton McLendon was a true Mississippian, a Southern Lady who worked in various jobs throughout her working life. She was born and reared in Columbus and lived and worked in Jackson. After graduating from the W (Mississippi College for Women), she taught second grade one year and was hired as a reporter by the Jackson Clarion–Ledger for two years. She and her husband, Donald W. Newton Sr., established an advertising agency, and she wrote advertising for fourteen years. After their divorce, she set up her own travel agency and conducted tours of Mississippi and, later, tours of Europe for fifteen years and wrote two travel books: Outdoor Mississippi by Carolyn Newton, 1974 and Meet Mississippi by Carolyn Newton and Patricia H. Coggin, 1976. For eight years, she was general manager of the Mississippi Symphony, arranging for concerts and handling finances, and worked eight years for the Mississippi Library. In her spare time, she was editor of the monthly Mississippi Episcopalian newspaper. She had one daughter and two sons and eight grandchildren. She died in Jackson in 2013.