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Winstead to discuss her newly released Civil Rights memoir

Amy Gage
October 1, 2002

St. Olaf English instructor Mary Winstead will read from and discuss her new book, Back to Mississippi: A Personal Journal Through the Events that Changed America in 1964, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m., in room 525 of Rolvaag Memorial Library. The event is free and open to the public. Winstead's memoir chronicles a journey that began with her father's charming tales of his Mississippi boyhood and continued with her discovery of her family's involvement in the murders of Civil Rights workers Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney in 1964. When her family closed ranks around their secrets, Winstead had to make a decision between loyalty to people she loved and speaking her truth. Kirkus Reviews calls the book "an honest and affecting journey into the past and into the writer's heart."

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.