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

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

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 Ivesterâ€™s father but her motherâ€”a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the Southâ€”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 familyâ€™s experiences living and working in an all-black town during the height of the civil rights movement.
Country USA
Manufacturer She Writes Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-04-07
Format Kindle eBook

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