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In 1967, when she was ten years old, her father moved their family from boston, ma to an allblack town in the mississippi delta, where they were drawn into the heart of the civil rights movement. Distinguished author, educator and activist jo ivester will present at 6 p. Inspiring teacher and her daughter recount their lives in a memoir of the 1960s deep south amidst extreme poverty and racial tension. Jo ivester s the outskirts of hope is a memoir that reads like a compelling dramatic fiction. Jo ivester is author the outskirts of hope where she describes her familys experience in a small, allblack town in mississippi in the 1960s where her father ran a medical clinic her mother was a local high school teacher and jo was the only white student at her junior high. Once dianne found this out, she asked me to speculate about why. Thursday, april 26, in room 106, center for transformative learning. Each book was edited, designed, and crafted by cameron in editions limited to ten copies. How did we all arrive there, in a tract house on marshall street in richland, washington. One of the presidents first actions after announcing his new program in 1964 as to send his lieutenants in search of the poorest spot in the country. Her books include the awardwinning memoir the outskirts of hope 2015 and the upcoming family memoir once a girl, always a boy 2020. And it inspired two close friends to get together in dharamsala for a talk about som.

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