Review of Cora Unashamed, by Emily

The movie Cora Unashamed was about an African-American woman working for a wealthy white family, the Studevants. Cora has had a hard life. Her father passed away, her mother is sick, her baby’s daddy is gone and then, her only child dies. Cora still continues to work for the white family. They have a little girl named Jessie who could practically be Cora’s child.

The Studevant parents aren’t ever around or just don’t care. They didn’t want Jessie. Her freckles were “a problem.” When young Jessie meets the love of her life, he gets her pregnant and leaves town for a while. When he gets back Mrs. Studevant had closed down his family’s dairy shop and forces his family to leave town. She did this because she didn’t want her daughter dating a milk boy.

When her mother found out that Jessie was pregnant, she took her to Kansas City and forced her to get an illegal abortion. Jessie got very sick and died because of the infection from the abortion. The movie is very depressing. I would recommend the movie to girls over guys because of the fact it’s a mushy movie. But I liked it.