![]() ![]() ![]() They were well-off-“comfortable,” as Margo’s mother would say. But isn’t all memoir a form of showing off? In my Negroland childhood, this was a perilous business.” I was taught to distinguish myself through presentation, not declaration, to excel through deeds and manner, not showing off. The family lived in tony parts of Bronzeville and Park Manor and, eventually, Hyde Park, where Margo and her older sister, Denise, both attended the prestigious University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. Her father was a pediatrician, and her mother, a University of Chicago graduate, was a socialite. Growing up in Chicago in the 1950s and ’60s, Margo Jefferson enjoyed all the luxuries of an upper-middle-class childhood. ![]()
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