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| Title: | From the Mississippi Delta
: A Memoir |
| Author: | Endesha Ida Mae |
| ISBN: | 1556523416 : 9781556523410 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x235mm |
| Pages: | 318 |
| Weight: | .47 Kg. |
| Published: | IPG (Lawrence Hill Books) - August 1999 |
| List Price: | 10.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Womens studies: Black studies: Civil rights & citizenship: USA |
After being raped by her employer's husband at the age of eleven, Ida Mae Holland (also known as 'Cat'), became a rebel, getting expelled from high school, turning to prostitution, serving jail time for shoplifting and assault. But when she stumbled across the civil rights movement, the troublemaker found herself developing into a leader -- on the front lines of marches and protects, facing police dogs and water hoses, being beaten and jailed again and again, all in a struggle for freedom. The dream soon turned into a nightmare, however, as Cat's family suffered the cruellest retribution at the hands of white bigots that she could ever have imagined.
