The Invitation: A Memoir of Hope Amidst Lessons of Race and Place

by Clifton L Taulbert and Clifton L. Taulbert

When international lecturer Clifton Taulbert receives an unexpected invitation to supper in Allendale, South Carolina, he brings with him Little Cliff, the colored boy from the Mississippi Delta who is also Clifton Taulbert, carrying all he was taught as a child about staying "in his place" and surviving in the Jim Crow South. Transported back into a setting that looks and feels like the cotton fields and shotgun shacks of his childhood, Taulbert...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588383075
• ISBN13: 9781588383075
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: NewSouth Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.3"