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    Prejudice
    Prejudice
    Prejudice
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    Prejudice

    By John Isaac Jones

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    “PREJUDICE” is the first story in The Billy Johnson Collection. When Billy was five years old, he met a Negro on a personal, one-on-one basis for the first time. It would be an experience he would never forget. This story is an examination of racial prejudice in the Deep South in the late 1940s.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Isaac Jones
    Release dateJul 18, 2012
    ISBN9781476032924
    Prejudice
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    John Isaac Jones

    John Isaac Jones is a retired journalist currently living at Merritt Island, Florida. For more than thirty years, "John I.," as he prefers to be called, was a reporter for media outlets throughout the world. These included local newspapers in his native Alabama, The National Enquirer, News of the World in London, the Sydney Morning Herald, and NBC television. He is the author of five novels, a short story collection and two novellas.

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      Prejudice - John Isaac Jones

      PREJUDICE

      By

      John Isaac Jones

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      PUBLISHED BY:

      John Isaac Jones on Smashwords

      PREJUDICE

      Copyright © 2012 by John Isaac Jones

      Thank you for buying this ebook.

      All rights reserved.

      Your support and respect for the property of this author is appreciated.

      This ebook is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are reproductions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

      I hope you enjoy this story as much as I enjoyed writing it.

      *****

      PREJUDICE

      *****

      As a small child growing up in the hills of

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