Summary Of Eden Rise

Reading this book was really interesting and very intriguing with the civil right movement. Eden Rise is a book that shook Tom Mckee family, town, to the core of the racial issue that was going on in there city. Granite this book is a fiction novel but, In 1965 Alabama was at really fighting with a lot of racial issue in Selma, Montgomery,and Birmingham. But in the summer of 1965 Tom Mckee a son of prominent white family from the small black belt town of the Eden Rise in west-central Alabama, who in May of 1965 returned home from his freshmen year at Duke University. Tom Mckee gave a ride to two black Duke students going to Alabama to work at a summer Freedom School, they stop at a gas station to fill the car up and use the bathroom. Tom went inside to get a snack and seen this heavyset old white guy say “what y’all doing here? Are y’all freedom writers?” Tom reply back no sir we just passing through. Tom looked over his shoulder and seen a double-barrel shotgun leading against the wall. Tom walked back to the car and told them we need to leave this is not a good place to stop. Jackie tried to tell Alma what Tom told her in a low voice but Alma push Jackie out the way and said the “The Hell With that,” out loud. Alma went inside of the store and, Tom was trying to pump the gas fast as he can. While he was pumping the gas he heard Alma shouting inside the store. Alma was yelling “You can’t run a damn Jim Crow store no longer!” Jackie looked at Tom and said I better go get her, well
The question that ran through my mind well reading this is why did the man in the store shoot him when he was trying to pull Alma away from the store. I just didn't understand why the man shot him or was Jackie in the way on the gun fire. The more I kept reading the more I got intrigued with the next scenes when they was in the car on the way to the