Memoir
Eyes Have Seen
From Mississippi to Montreal
- Publisher
- Baraka Books
- Published
- April 1, 2025
- Pages
- 240
- Price
- $24.95
- ISBN
- 9781771863780
- Language
- English
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Eyes Have Seen, From Mississippi to Montreal is a vivid and searing memoir about growing up black in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In the difficult and often dangerous years of ubiquitous racism, Anderson recounts how family, good neighbours and the cultural underpinnings of Newman Quarters kept him grounded and capable of embracing the racial and tyrannical crosswinds of the American South of the 1950s and 60s. With electric candour, Anderson writes about joining the Mississippi civil rights movement at the age of fifteen, the burgeoning anti-Vietnam War activism, and reimagining the underground railroad to Canada.
“Little did I know that the internal and public outcomes of the waning Mississippi Freedom Summer and my personal fate would collide with my ancestral struggles and hurl me into the narrative of runaway fugitives seeking exile in Canada.”
It is also a story of exile, of living under the assumed name of Clifford Gaston from 1966 until 1977 when amnesty was granted to draft dodgers, of dodging arrest and deportation, of forging a new home in another country so far away from family and friends.
Description from the publisher Baraka Books, seen in October 2026 · Source ↗
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