For the Love of Minnie follows the life of an African American woman whose strength rises from the red clay hills near Pulaski, Tennessee — birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan — where simply surviving is an act of courage. Minnie cooks, sings, works beside her father in the fields, and raises her children with unwavering devotion. She loves James, a white man and father of most of her children — a bond both tender and dangerous in the late 1800s and early 1900s. When she travels to Galveston in 1900 to help James’s family prepare for a wedding, Minnie is swept into the great storm, fighting to save lives amid devastating loss. Longing for legitimacy in a world that condemns her, she later turns to Henry, a mixed-race man of African descent, hoping that marriage will grant her the acceptance she craves. Instead, Henry proves unreliable, deepening her struggle between love, loyalty, and self-worth. Through friendship, music, motherhood, and quiet resilience, Minnie endures betrayal, racial peril, and heartbreak — her death as mysterious as the life she fought so hard to claim.