Whiteout: A Memoir

Hugh Merrill, KC based artist, activist and community organizer tells the story of his upbringing in this unforgettable memoir, Whiteout. This book begins with Merrill’s birth in 1949 and follows the young man growing up in the bounty and subsequent loss of familial wealth and political power in the deep Jim Crow South through graduation from high school and leaving his broken home to attend art school.