From Colored to Black

With perceptive insight, Erin Goseer Mitchell continues to define race, class and family struggle. Informal, yet passionate,her writing remains thought provoking and inspiring. From her Introduction:

One Saturday in July 2014, I attended a writers' workshop at National Louis University. One of the requirements for attending the workshop was to submit and present a page of work in progress. Rick Kogan, a senior editor at the Chicago Tribune, was the facilitator of the session. When my turn came, I read a page from an account about my first year in Chicago after I left Fitzgerald, Georgia. The group found it compelling. Kogan was very encouraging and told me that he wanted more, that this was a part of Chicago history that he had never heard.

With his comments and the prodding I had gotten from my readers, I began the arduous and often painful process of writing about my life in Chicago. The reminiscences that comprise this book are a result of that effort.