Mom and Me and Mom
Vivian Baxter Johnson was the first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, owner of a gambling business and rooming house, and the mother of Maya Angelou. But Maya was raised by her paternal grandmother not her mother. In Mom & Me & Mom, Maya relates the story of why her mother sent her away and she reveals the well of emotions she experienced in her later life as a result of that abandonment.
Format: Kindle Edition, Audiobook, Hardcover, & Paperback
Paperback: 208 Pages
Language: English
4.5/5
Reviewed By Reviewed By Violeta Nedkova
“A story in a time when it wasn’t good to be born black, or a woman, in America. A heart-breaking account about the sacrifices of motherhood and the effects of racism on family life.”
