A review by sariggs
Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times by Florynce Kennedy

I admit, I gave this a more casual read than I usually do. The style is more scrapbook then memoir. It reproduces articles (but you can’t always read the text), and includes pictures. The book’s text is a bit like Flo just walking you through her life and her politics, steam of consciousness style. It feels self-published, and authentic but not very personal. I love her passion, and how uncoached she was. She’s so much more human and so much more honest than today’s politicians can afford to be. I was surprised that she spouted the propaganda of Rosa Parks just being a tired woman and not a lifelong activist, but other than that, I was entranced with the insider look at the feminist movement and the conflict between racism and sexism that women of color have to deal with.