My triumph over prejudice : a memoir

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The work My triumph over prejudice : a memoir represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

My triumph over prejudice : a memoir

Title remainder

a memoir

Statement of responsibility

Martha Wyatt-Rossignol

Creator

• Wyatt-Rossignol, Martha

Author

• Wyatt-Rossignol, Martha

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

Genre

• 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"--

Member of

• Willie Morris books in memoir and biography

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

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