Multicolored memories of a Black Southern girl
By: Kitty Oliver.
Series: Women in Southern culture
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Oliver, Kitty, 1947- -- Childhood and youth; Oliver, Kitty, 1947- -- Family; African American women -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- Biography; African Americans -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- Biography; African American women journalists -- Biography; African Americans -- Florida -- Social conditions -- 20th century; African Americans -- Florida -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Biography; Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Race relations; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- Florida
Genres: Biography.
Description: ""Every family has its maverick - the one who runs counter to the herd - and I played that role in mine," Kitty Oliver writes. Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl is the story of Oliver's coming of age in Florida and her crossing from an all-black to a predominantly white world. Born and raised in Jacksonville but a wanderer by blood, Oliver chronicles the strains and surprises of her transition from Jim Crow to desegregation."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Migrations; title: Mama says (where the stories lie); title: Menfolks matters; title: Leavings of home; title: Tribal wars; title: Double vision; title: Jambalaya; title: Seeing black and white and multicolors; title: Cousins; title: Zoraville; title: Second comings of age; title: Hegiras.