Bigmama Didn't Shop at Woolworth's


Bigmama Didn't Shop At Woolworth's is a memoir by Sunny Nash about life during the Civil Rights Movement. It was chosen as an Association of American University Presses Book for Understanding U.S. Race Relations. The book was also recommended by the Miami-Dade Public Library System for Native American Collections.
The book, still in print and collected worldwide, consists of a collection of articles from Nash's newspaper column in The Houston Chronicle.
A selection from Nash's column, "A Mission Completed For Doll," was published in the collection State Lines, edited by Ken Hammond, illustrated by Rolf Laub, with a foreword by Leon Hale. The selection was also published in Nash's book.
The book was included in The Writers Harvest: The National Reading to Benefit Hunger and Poverty.
Based on the book, Melody Graulich presented the paper, "The Spaces of Segregation," at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting.

Reception

The Library Journal recommended Bigmama for black studies or Texas history collections, writing, "Nash tells a story of the wrongs of racial prejudice..." and the School Library Journal wrote, "Young people will learn a lot from this book."
Glencoe literature: the reader's choice explained, "Edgar Gabriel Silex and Sunny Nash honor grandparents whose dignity inspired them..."
It has also been reviewed by Publishers Weekly, the Mississippi Quarterly, The Western Journal of Black Studies, and the Los Angeles Times.