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Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is a Memoir of a young girl's life encounters that expand to adulthood throughout seven decades culminating with illustrations of struggles, challenges, and commitments. Inspired by events growing up in the segregated South throughout a career encompassing school integration and livelihood with diverse cultures being motivated by religious belief system. I am who I am, the individual God created me to be. I am considered by some as being a 'baby boomer'. I am the product of the segregated South who grew up fearing the surroundings that I was born into. I became an educator and rose through the ranks from classroom reading teacher to an elementary school principal of sixteen years retired with a total of 38 years. I nibbled with being an adjunct professor at a Christian college and after retiring became an educational consultant with a notable institution of professionals. Surpassing all else, I take pleasure to share and relate experiences of how God intervened during life encounters in decision-making and courage to take each step to higher steps. I relate the Me, that God created through words and poetry in this Memoir.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - That's the Way It 'Wuz' Back Then is an overview about a particular period and a particular people in history with limited recorded information about their experiences. The information, gathered from interviews with others and my own experiences, provides a brief depiction of the hardship and suffering of black families during the early twentieth century, segregated schools in the south, and the unrest experienced in the south during the desegregation of schools. The main purpose for writing this book is record bits and pieces of history concerning African Americans in Lonoke County, Arkansas, to be placed in the Lonoke County Library. In keeping with that purpose, That's the Way It 'Wuz' Back Then has chapters that relate to the lives of people who persevered and overcame the difficulties placed upon them and became productive citizens in their communities. The book contains abstracts or clippings of the The Lonoke Democrat newspaper articles relate the physical, cultural, and spiritual existence of African Americans in Lonoke County, Arkansas, during the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. The Lonoke Democrat newspaper articles demonstrate the experiences of people and their rich cultural identity and family. I wanted to sustain the language or speech of that period in time; therefore, limited editing of this section of the book was done. It is the cultural identity of our ancestors that we all long to reminisce in family gatherings.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThat s the Way It Wuz Back Then is an overview about a particular period and a particular people in history with limited recorded information about their experiences. The information, gathered from interviews with others and my .