Memoir of Emili-Rose is set in a time that represents one of the nation’s most socially regressive eras. For Emili-Rose, times could not have been worse. She was the victim of a society that afforded her few opportunities. She was black, female, and like most rural African-American children, the product of a society that provided her parents and community too few economic and political prospects for change. Even thought the book depicts the victimization of Emili-Rose, on the contrary, it celebrates her strength, her character, and her daring faith to believe that her life was not preordained by those who would thwart her progress. Memoir of Emili-Rose is about an incredible life-spirited child who shows by example, that by refuting ill-suited labels, you win. The book proves that ill-suited labels can rob and weaken one’s spirit, take away courage and creativity, and dims hope. Moreover, ill-suited labels can leave the human spirit in a perpetual state of confusion. In her book, her life challenges a preordained fate of social subjugation that was so real during these times. Young Emili-Rose believed she could and she did.Her life is her testimony and it makes its case against the mockers