At the height of the civil rights movement, Jo Ivester’s father moved their family to the poorest county in the nation to start a medical clinic. She was 10 years old and the only white student in her class. In her memoir, The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South (She Writes Press, April 2015), Ivester tells a very personal story of her family’s journey to the segregated American South.