Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl:
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Main Author: Oliver, Kitty (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington The University Press of Kentucky 2001
Series:Women in Southern culture
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Item Description:Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; Migrations; Mama Says; Menfolks Matters; Leavings of Home; Tribal Wars; Double Vision; PART TWO; Jambalaya; Seeing Black and White and Colors; Cousins; Zoraville; Second Comings of Age; Hegiras
A telling memoir by an exciting new voice, Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl explores journalist Kitty Oliver's coming of age as she makes the crossing from an all-black to a predominantly white world. Born and raised in an all-black area of Jacksonville, Florida, Oliver was one of the first African American freshmen to enter the University of Florida. Though she chronicles the strains of her transition from Jim Crow to desegregation, this book is much more than a memoir of the turbulent sixties. It is an upbeat journal of self-discovery in the aftermath of that decade, a look at
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (184 pages)
ISBN:0813147581
9780813147581

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