Honourable mention in NC book festival At the end of World War II it remained to be seen if the old south would fit back into the bottle from which it emerged in 1941. Could Dixie change to offer a safe environment including equal rights and opportunities for Negros or would it revert to the old way of Jim Crow with the Ku Klux Klan in the roll of the enforcer. Corinth is a story with an ending like no other.