Tag Archives: Medgar Evers

The White Doll

Posted on April 18, 2023 by Art for Housewives

Ladies, what the hell is going on in the U.S.A.? Although I’ve lived most of my life in Italy, I was born and raised in the U.S. where I was taught how lucky one was to be an American because … Continue reading →

Posted in Beauty, Books, Conditions of Possibility, female consciousness, politics | Tagged #TennesseeThree, affirmation, autobiography, gun control, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mamie Phipps Clark, Medgar Evers, racism, segregation, Statue of Liberty, story tellers, White Doll test | 5 Comments

Eudora Welty (1909-2001)

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Art for Housewives

Even though the fan was going full blast, I was suffocating. It was a night in June of 1963 and I was in Jackson visiting my friend Eudora. There’d been much tension in town due to the demonstrations. Nerves were … Continue reading →