The Outskirts of Hope
A Memoir
Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, [2015]
Format: Book
Description: 238 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 22 cm
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.
Subjects:
Ivester, Jo.
Kruger, Aura Kern.
Race discrimination -- Southern States -- Personal narratives.
Mothers and daughters -- Biography.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Education, Secondary -- Southern States.
Forgiveness.
Equality -- Southern States -- History.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History.
Southern States -- Social conditions -- History.
Ivester, Jo.
Kruger, Aura Kern.
Race discrimination -- Southern States -- Personal narratives.
Mothers and daughters -- Biography.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Education, Secondary -- Southern States.
Forgiveness.
Equality -- Southern States -- History.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History.
Southern States -- Social conditions -- History.
ISBN:
9781631529641
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