Lily's Ride

Lily’s Ride dramatizes the nation’s first civil rights movement. Set in North Carolina just after the Civil War, it tells of those who bravely defied white supremacy and fought for racial equality. 

Comfort Servosse is a Union officer who moved South to fight for equality. John Walters is a poor white who wants his daughters to get a good education and has formed an alliance with recently freed slaves to establish honest government and good schools. Jerry Hunt is a black pastor who openly defies the Klan. 

At the heart of this story is Lily Servosse, an extraordinarily brave teen girl. Warned that the Klan intends to kill her father that very night, she rides his thoroughbred stallion on the same roads over which a hundred Klan are traveling. The San Francisco Chronicle said: “The night ride of young Lily Servosse is one of the finest and most thrilling incidents that has ever been told in history or romance.”