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

By Jo Ivester

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631529641
• ISBN13: 9781631529641
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"