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The outskirts of hope : a memoir of the 1960s Deep South
Record details
- ISBN: 9781631529641
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Physical Description:
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pages cm - Publisher: Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2015.
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| Subject: | Southern States -- Race relations Afro-Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States Southern States -- Social conditions African Americans -- Southern States |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Castlegar Public Library | 305.800973 IVE (Text) | 35146001936475 | Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his wife and three younger children from a suburb of Boston to an all-black town in the Mississippi cotton fields so that he could become the medical director of a clinic meant to serve the poorest region in the nation. Her mother, Aura Kruger, was recruited to teach at the local high school, where she became a beloved and sometimes controversial figure who introduced black literature into the curriculum and encouraged her students to stand up for their rights. In "The outskirts of hope", Ivester builds on journals left by her mother to paint an inspiring portrait - of her family's experiences, and of a town dealing in a unique way with the racism that still grips our nation today.
