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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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

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

Ivester, Jo

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Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1631529641
ISBN13: 9781631529641
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: Apr 7 2015
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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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