Tag: Memoir

• February 15, 2026

  “One of the Sleepless Ones:” The Autobiographies of Winson Hudson

  The Autobiography of Mrs. Winson Hudson, A Black Woman of Mississippi (an excerpt)—I live in Leake County. I was born here. My father and mother was born here.  My husband and I moved to Chicago a year after we were married, neither one of us liked it there. It was not long after we got there that we…