![]() ![]() White and Jewish from Boston, the family is transplanted into the segregated Deep South of the 1960s, trying to make a difference in people’s lives. “A powerful personal perspective of a tumultuous time in America, seen through the eyes of a mother and her daughter navigating family and societal currents in the midst of the civil rights movement. ![]() “ The Outskirts of Hope is a yesteryear tale (1967) that could not be more pertinent and helpful to the racially complex and perturbed time we are living in now.” “A sensitive and powerful memoir of racial change in the South in the 1960s.” An important, riveting history lesson that, unfortunately, is still relevant today.” ![]() What gives it heart is the window it opens to the personal journeys of mother and daughter. “What makes this book particularly valuable is its vivid depiction of the abhorrent consequences of legalized segregation. She and her husband teach each January at MIT and travel extensively, splitting their time between Texas, Colorado, and Singapore. Following the birth of her fourth child, she became a teacher. She finished high school in Florida before attending Reed, MIT, and Stanford in preparation for a career in transportation and manufacturing. ![]() Jo Ivester spent two years of her childhood living in a trailer in Mound Bayou, where she was the only white student at her junior high. ![]()
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