Janet Cheatham Bell

Janet Cheatham Bell tells a moving story of an Indiana childhood that focused on loving parents and the joys of picnics in state parks, high school basketball games, and family gatherings. Hers is the compelling story too of growing up at a time of white insistence on segregation and discrimination and of moving toward womanhood and self-understanding amidst the changes of the 1950s and 1960s.

James H. Madison, author, Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana and professor emeritus, history, Indiana University