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Author Oliver, Kitty, 1947-

Title Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl
Published Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (184 pages)
Series Women in Southern Culture
Women in Southern culture.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; Migrations; Mama Says; Menfolks Matters; Leavings of Home; Tribal Wars; Double Vision; PART TWO; Jambalaya; Seeing Black and White and Colors; Cousins; Zoraville; Second Comings of Age; Hegiras
Summary A telling memoir by an exciting new voice, Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl explores journalist Kitty Oliver's coming of age as she makes the crossing from an all-black to a predominantly white world. Born and raised in an all-black area of Jacksonville, Florida, Oliver was one of the first African American freshmen to enter the University of Florida. Though she chronicles the strains of her transition from Jim Crow to desegregation, this book is much more than a memoir of the turbulent sixties. It is an upbeat journal of self-discovery in the aftermath of that decade, a look at
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Subject Oliver, Kitty, 1947- -- Childhood and youth
Oliver, Kitty, 1947- -- Family
SUBJECT Oliver, Kitty, 1947- fast
Subject 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
Cultural pluralism -- Florida
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
Childhood and youth of a person
African American women
African American women journalists
African Americans
African Americans -- Social conditions
African Americans -- Social life and customs
Cultural pluralism
Families
Race relations
SUBJECT Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Biography
Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Race relations
Subject Florida
Florida -- Jacksonville
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813147581
0813147581