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Welcome to the site of Erin Goseer Mitchell, author of Born Colored: Life Before Bloody Sunday and From Colored to Black: A Bittersweet Journey.

We are sad to announce that Erin Alieze Goseer Mitchell, born June 9, 1935, in Selma, Alabama, passed away peacefully at the age of 89 on March 31, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia.

You can read her obituary here.

These two collections of essays movingly reveal the insights of a child, as well as the hard-won wisdom of a survivor.

Erin Goseer Mitchell was born in Selma, Alabama. She grew up there and in Fitzgerald, Georgia, one generation before the Civil Rights Movement began.