Born Colored is about generations of a family living in the deep South prior to the start of the Civil Rights Movement. Bloody Sunday—March 7, 1965—was the day that 200 troopers beat 500 peaceful marchers with billy clubs, whips and tear gas as they attempted to walk from Selma to Montgomery. Mitchell's book captures this “boiling over” which she sees as the result of years and years of emotional and physical injuries. By simply telling the truth, she captures the tyranny upon which the Movement was built.
Mitchell explores the intimacies of growing up “colored,” helping us understand who we are now and who we might become. —Pat Schneider, Author, Writing Alone and with Others
Mitchell’s clear writing draws us into her childhood world while enlarging our own. —Enid Powell, Writer and Teacher
This book is a major contribution to recording historical 20th Century African-American events in the southern USA. —Willie Lee Hart, President, Chicago Friends of the Amistad Research Center
by Erin Goseer Mitchell
Born Colored is about generations of a family living in the deep South prior to the start of the Civil Rights Movement. Bloody Sunday—March 7, 1965—was the day that 200 troopers beat 500 peaceful marchers with billy clubs, whips and tear gas as they attempted to walk from Selma to Montgomery. Mitchell's book captures this “boiling over” which she sees as the result of years and years of emotional and physical injuries. By simply telling the truth, she captures the tyranny upon which the Movement was built.
Mitchell explores the intimacies of growing up “colored,” helping us understand who we are now and who we might become. —Pat Schneider, Author, Writing Alone and with Others
Mitchell’s clear writing draws us into her childhood world while enlarging our own. —Enid Powell, Writer and Teacher
This book is a major contribution to recording historical 20th Century African-American events in the southern USA. —Willie Lee Hart, President, Chicago Friends of the Amistad Research Center
