Bigmama Didn't Shop at Woolworth's

Bigmama Didn't Shop at Woolworth's is a memoir by Sunny Nash about life[1] with her part-Comanche grandmother[2] during the Civil Rights Movement published by Texas A&M University Press in 1996.

[3] Bigmama Didn't Shop At Woolworth's was chosen as an Association of American University Presses Book for Understanding U.S. Race Relations.

Bigmama delivered one of these gems, for instance, in response to young Nash's materialistic yearnings before Christmas one year,” Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn, book review in The Mississippi Quarterly(Vol.

[10] Melody Graulich based her paper, "The Spaces of Segregation," on Nash's book, Bigmama Didn't Shop At Woolworth's.

"[12] Glencoe literature: the reader's choice explained, "Edgar Gabriel Silex and Sunny Nash honor grandparents whose dignity inspired them..."[13] It has also been reviewed by Publishers Weekly,[14] the Mississippi Quarterly,[15] The Western Journal of Black Studies,[16] and the Los Angeles Times.