The Resource My triumph over prejudice : a memoir, Martha Wyatt-Rossignol
My triumph over prejudice : a memoir, Martha Wyatt-Rossignol
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The item My triumph over prejudice : a memoir, Martha Wyatt-Rossignol represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item My triumph over prejudice : a memoir, Martha Wyatt-Rossignol represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
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- Summary
- "My Triumph over Prejudice is the autobiography of a black girl growing up in Mississippi during the civil rights era. Born in 1949, Martha Wyatt-Rossignol came of age during some of the most crucial and dangerous years of the civil rights movement. She examines those years and what happened when the movement upended her small town of Fayette. She describes the conditions under which blacks lived during segregation and how those oppressive rules changed, despite massive resistance from whites.Wyatt-Rossignol faced racial hatred when she was chosen for an early school desegregation program. Her failed marriage to an African American led to her dating and later wedding a white man, a civil rights worker from the North, to whom she is still married. That union sparked disapproval from both the white and black communities, revealing entrenched complexities of race and racism in her hometown.Her story also follows the politics of that volatile era in a local context. Black politicians, helped by national civil rights figures, assumed more power and began improving life for all races in this rural area. Then came a betrayal felt by many blacks as these key figures overreached their authority and started pursuing their own selfish agendas. An intimate, revealing portrait of Charles Evers, the first black mayor of Fayette and brother of Medgar Evers, is included in this section. The memoir goes on to portray how the author learned to hate whites as a result of her experiences and how she later overcame that animosity. Wyatt-Rossignol's story concludes with her move out of Mississippi to the island of Bermuda, where she encounters a very different racial environment"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- vi, 227 pages
- Isbn
- 9781496806031
- Label
- My triumph over prejudice : a memoir
- Title
- My triumph over prejudice
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Martha Wyatt-Rossignol
- Subject
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- Authors, Manchester (N.H.)
- Authors, New Hampshire
- Fayette (Miss.) -- Biography
- Interracial marriage -- Mississippi
- Mississippi -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Race discrimination -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- School integration -- Mississippi | Fayette
- Wyatt-Rossignol, Martha
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Mississippi | Fayette -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "My Triumph over Prejudice is the autobiography of a black girl growing up in Mississippi during the civil rights era. Born in 1949, Martha Wyatt-Rossignol came of age during some of the most crucial and dangerous years of the civil rights movement. She examines those years and what happened when the movement upended her small town of Fayette. She describes the conditions under which blacks lived during segregation and how those oppressive rules changed, despite massive resistance from whites.Wyatt-Rossignol faced racial hatred when she was chosen for an early school desegregation program. Her failed marriage to an African American led to her dating and later wedding a white man, a civil rights worker from the North, to whom she is still married. That union sparked disapproval from both the white and black communities, revealing entrenched complexities of race and racism in her hometown.Her story also follows the politics of that volatile era in a local context. Black politicians, helped by national civil rights figures, assumed more power and began improving life for all races in this rural area. Then came a betrayal felt by many blacks as these key figures overreached their authority and started pursuing their own selfish agendas. An intimate, revealing portrait of Charles Evers, the first black mayor of Fayette and brother of Medgar Evers, is included in this section. The memoir goes on to portray how the author learned to hate whites as a result of her experiences and how she later overcame that animosity. Wyatt-Rossignol's story concludes with her move out of Mississippi to the island of Bermuda, where she encounters a very different racial environment"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wyatt-Rossignol, Martha
- Dewey number
- 305.896/07307620830904
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E185.93.M6
- LC item number
- W93 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Wyatt-Rossignol, Martha
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Race discrimination
- School integration
- Interracial marriage
- Authors, New Hampshire
- Authors, Manchester (N.H.)
- Mississippi
- Fayette (Miss.)
- Label
- My triumph over prejudice : a memoir, Martha Wyatt-Rossignol
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- vi, 227 pages
- Isbn
- 9781496806031
- Lccn
- 2015032209
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)949920839
- (OCoLC)ocn949920839
- Label
- My triumph over prejudice : a memoir, Martha Wyatt-Rossignol
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- vi, 227 pages
- Isbn
- 9781496806031
- Lccn
- 2015032209
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)949920839
- (OCoLC)ocn949920839
Subject
- Authors, Manchester (N.H.)
- Authors, New Hampshire
- Fayette (Miss.) -- Biography
- Interracial marriage -- Mississippi
- Mississippi -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Race discrimination -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- School integration -- Mississippi | Fayette
- Wyatt-Rossignol, Martha
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Mississippi | Fayette -- Biography
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