The outskirts of hope : based on the journals of her mother, Aura Kern Kruger / by Jo Ivester.
2015
HN79.A13 I84 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
The outskirts of hope : based on the journals of her mother, Aura Kern Kruger / by Jo Ivester.
Author
Ivester, Jo, author.
Cover Title
Outskirts of hope : a memoir of the 1960s Deep South
ISBN
9781631529641 (paperback)
1631529641 (paperback)
1631529641 (paperback)
Published
Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2015
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
238 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 22 cm
Call Number
HN79.A13 I84 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
370.92
Summary
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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Table of Contents
The Outskirts of Hope
Mound Bayou
Living with Don Quixote
The Land of Cotton
Inspired to Teach
If not Us, Who?
If not Now, When?
We Shall Overcome
Guess Who's Going to College?
Dreaming the Impossible
Leave the Books
Back to Mound Bayou.
Mound Bayou
Living with Don Quixote
The Land of Cotton
Inspired to Teach
If not Us, Who?
If not Now, When?
We Shall Overcome
Guess Who's Going to College?
Dreaming the Impossible
Leave the Books
Back to Mound Bayou.