Road Through Midnight

“A haunting monograph that presents narratives of struggle, injustice, and unspeakable brutality in almost austere fashion. . . . In showing us how everyday landscapes are forever scarred by violent histories, Ingram is telling us that the wounds of slavery, segregation, and white supremacist ideology survive in ways we refuse to see, in our cities, prisons, schools, and neighborhoods.”—Chapter 16

“Road Through Midnight is not an easy read, nor is it meant to be, but it is a powerful means for learning part of our shared history. Jessica Ingram spent more than a decade creating what she describes as 'an interpretive and suggestive work rather than a scholarly one,' but one that—through her photographs, detailed research, and many personal interviews—will help readers connect the past to the present and with what still remains to be done.”—Georgia Library Quarterly

“[A] marvelous, evocative meditation on the power of remembering. . . . Every reader who opens this book will take something different from it.”—The North Carolina Historical Review

“One of the most powerful books of documentary content I know of. . . . It might be the book’s greatest strength that it reminds us that terrible things can happen in ordinary places, in seemingly ordinary times, and that they could yet again.”—Study the South

“Ingram’s expertise shows with the thoughtful blending of image and text throughout the book. . . . [T]his title would be ideal for public, academic, or special libraries that collect works about the South, the Civil Rights era and movement.”—North Carolina Libraries

“Inviting and engaging. Ingram’s book is both reflexive and reflective, guiding us through a difficult history and creatively telling these hidden histories with a sensitivity to a highly trafficked past. Her pioneering approach as a photographer and archivist gives us a new way of looking at the South and the civil rights movement from someone who grew up in the South.”—Deborah Willis, author of Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present

“An unparalleled approach to the topic of civil rights history in photography—studies such as this are so needed today. Ingram’s poignant photographs make these quiet, forgotten southern landscapes come alive. An original thinker and dedicated artist, Jessica Ingram fosters a rhythm and flow that captives the reader and draws them in to the very end.”—Cheryl Finley, author of My Soul Has Grown Deep: Black Art from the American South and Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon