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Chandra's Reviews > Small Moments: A Child's Memories of the Civil Rights Movement
Small Moments: A Child's Memories of the Civil Rights Movement
by Mary M. Barrow (Goodreads Author)
by Mary M. Barrow (Goodreads Author)
GENRE: Non-Fiction. Not a history book. A life as it was book.
LOOKING AT HER AFRICAN AMERICAN MAID THRU A SMALL WHITE GIRL’S EYES.
SETTING: 1959 – 1964; Segregation in America to Civil Rights era
Amelia MacIntosh aka “Mimi”; a maid for over 12 year. Mary; as she saw Mimi thru her eyes during this period in history.
SYNOPSIS: Amelia MacIntosh moved from Tennessee to New Jersey with the family that she cared for. She loved this family but did they understand her love for them. Did they love her just the same?
WHAT I LIKED: The little talks in the attic. Each chapter provided a brief glimpse of history followed by life in an actual family’s life.
WHAT I DID NOT LIKE: “nothing”. This book is reality and a MUST READ, MUST MUST READ for “everyone”
I give this book (FIVE) stars because this book is reality. Growing up in Washington, D.C., I never realized what was going on in the rest of the country. My life was so different. I went to public schools. I went with my mother to see “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and never heard of a movie peanut gallery. Visited my father at work for the Department of Labor. And, I am African American having lived during an era of “Segregation in American to the Civil Rights era”.
LOOKING AT HER AFRICAN AMERICAN MAID THRU A SMALL WHITE GIRL’S EYES.
SETTING: 1959 – 1964; Segregation in America to Civil Rights era
Amelia MacIntosh aka “Mimi”; a maid for over 12 year. Mary; as she saw Mimi thru her eyes during this period in history.
SYNOPSIS: Amelia MacIntosh moved from Tennessee to New Jersey with the family that she cared for. She loved this family but did they understand her love for them. Did they love her just the same?
WHAT I LIKED: The little talks in the attic. Each chapter provided a brief glimpse of history followed by life in an actual family’s life.
WHAT I DID NOT LIKE: “nothing”. This book is reality and a MUST READ, MUST MUST READ for “everyone”
I give this book (FIVE) stars because this book is reality. Growing up in Washington, D.C., I never realized what was going on in the rest of the country. My life was so different. I went to public schools. I went with my mother to see “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and never heard of a movie peanut gallery. Visited my father at work for the Department of Labor. And, I am African American having lived during an era of “Segregation in American to the Civil Rights era”.
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