This collection of essays captures the tyranny of and triumph of growing up a colored girl in the Deep South when segregation was the law, one generation before the civil rights movement. This collection movingly reveals the insights of a child as well as the hard-won wisdom of a survivor.

Erin Goseer Mitchell was born in Selma, Alabama. She grew up there and in Fitzgerald, Georgia one generation before the Civil Rights Movement began. Erin is a graduate of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia and has a Master of Music degree from Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois. She taught for 38 years and began a writing career after retiring from the  Chicago Public Schools.