'Beneath a Ruthless Sun' is a wrenching story of bigotry – and an inspiring tale of heroes
On a Thursday night in December, 1957, a big chill comes to a region of Florida that's already frozen in time.
The temperature drops to 12 degrees, destroying much of the citrus trees in Lake County, not far from Orlando. The community can't manage to warm a citrus crop whose value had outpaced the entire state of California the previous year. Then there's more distressing news a few nights later.
A white woman awakens to an intruder in an upscale Georgian-style home with a pair of columns out front.
