Jessie B. Sams

Jessie Bennett Sams (born 1909 in Alachua, Florida) was an African American author, elementary school teacher, painter, and ceramist who graduated from Florida A&M College and pursued graduate studies at the University of Southern California and the University of Colorado.Barnes & Noble, Anisfield-Wolf. She is best known for her 1957 memoir White Mother, recounting her and her twin sister's childhood rescued by a white woman in Florida amid poverty and racial prejudice, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for its portrayal of love transcending racial barriers.Anisfield-Wolf, ThriftBooks.