Ely: Too Black…Too White: 50th Anniversary Edition

by Ely Green, Arthur Ben Chitty (Editor)

Fifty-six years have passed since Ely Green brought his handwritten autobiography to my father, Arthur Ben Chitty, in late December of 1964. My father had been taking oral histories of Sewanee’s residents for years, but he had never heard a story like Ely’s, perhaps because Ely was uniquely positioned to observe the time and place and uniquely gifted to tell his story.… to me, Ely’s is the most comprehensive, subtle, layered, and detailed first-person description of the white supremacist Jim Crow system in existence. — Em Turner Chitty, from the Introduction

480 pages, Paperback

Published February 5, 2021