Mississippi and integration in the 1960s the year is 1964, and alice Ann Moxley's FBI-agent father has been reassigned from Chicago to jackson, mississippi, to protect black people who are registering to vote. Alice find...Mississippi and integration in the 1960s the year is 1964, and alice Ann Moxley's FBI-agent father has been reassigned from Chicago to jackson, mississippi, to protect black people who are registering to vote. Alice finds herself thrust into the midst of the racial turmoil that dominates current events, especially when a negro girl named Valerie Taylor Joins her sixth-grade class -- the first of two black students at her new school because of a mandatory integration law.