A parody in the vein of a romance novel:

In 1923, a girl leaves a wasting farm in Wyoming and re-encounters a gritty wanderer who (consensually) deflowered her. She takes a job gutting sheep in the slaughterhouses of Chicago. There she is discovered by a Hollywood mogul. She contracts to make six silent movies. All take advantage of her sexual desirability, while gradually growing grander in scale and more subtle in meaning. She becomes a star, and must face conflicts of family and career in the context of the 1920s

Ten pages of preview are free.


http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/laura-trash/8177072

An old story I found about the literacy test and their fairness given to blacks:

Alabama, 1930s. A retired doctor from the North returns to his old hometown after many years. He walks into the local county courthouse and asks if black people can register to vote. He's told yes, they can. But they must first pass a literacy test. He says no problem. They produce a Chinese newspaper, hand it to the doctor, and say, "Can you read this?" He looks at it for a moment and responds "I sure can. It says there aren't going to be any black folks voting in this county."