"The writing in Born Colored is clear, interesting, informative, colorful and concise!"
Leland White
Administrator (retired)
Chicago Public Schools
"I read your book and truly enjoyed every page. You are a master of details and the English language. Your description of every event seems so current. The book refreshed so many memories of yesteryears in Fitzgerald."
Oliver L. Winkfield
Washington, D.C.
"We have entered the 21st Century and continue to need stories such as these to teach this ‘privileged' generation about historical injustices. This book is for everyone, of any age."
Nichole Shields
Twice winner of the
Gwendolyn Brooks Award
"Erin Goseer Mitchell explores the intimacies of growing up ‘colored' in America during the 1940s and ‘50s. She writes beautifully, helping us to understand who we are now and who we might become."
Pat Schneider, Author
Writing Alone and With Others
"Being a 38-year-old African-American female, I have read many books about racism and the civil rights movement but no book has made me appreciate who I am and the roots from whence I came as yours has. Your book has opened my mind. Thank you for exposing yourself to help others."
Vanessa Lane
Hood Theological Seminary
"The experience of bonding with and learning from older women enhances a student's education. It enables her to pass the stories on to future generations. I hope you are pleased that your book is housed at Spelman's Oral History project."
Gloria Wade Gayles, Ph.D.
Founding Director
Spelman's Independent Scholars Oral History Project
"I grew up in a large city in Ohio, sheltered from ‘in your face' segregation. I truly learned from your stories."
Helen R. Richmond
Divine Destiny Ministries
"Mitchell's descriptions of growing up in Alabama and Georgia are so vivid that I'm amazed at her upbeat attitude. Born Colored gave me some insights I really needed."
Lt. Col. Marcie Ledlow
Professor of Leadership and Ethics
Air Command
Maxwell Air Force Base, AL