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The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South

By Jo Ivester

Book information

Publisher
She Writes Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9781631529658, 9781631529641, 2014953583
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4484075 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-30 17:35:46
BIO019000BIO026000Biography & AutobiographyNonfictionPOL004000Politics

Description

In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester's father but her mother—a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South—who made the most enduring mark on the town. In The Outskirts of Hope, Ivester uses journals left by her mother, as well as writings of her own, to paint a vivid, moving, and inspiring portrait of her family's experiences living and working in an all-black town during the height of the civil rights movement.

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