Through captivating short stories and poems, you are introduced to endearing characters who triumphed in the midst of Jim Crow. Many of these creative champions, with very little education, thrived. These tales were experienced by a colored, Negro, African American, Black girl who was guided to succeed. The Black people of Ensley, Alabama protected and cared for one another as it was pertinent to sanity, endurance, and evolution. We trusted each other and slept with our windows open, and the screened doors unlocked.
You will meet people who moved forward despite being told by whites that they would not, could not, must not believe in themselves. Though the commitment from those outsides of our neighborhood was that we must not prosper, within our community there was a unique fortitude, a prevailing spirit that was ingrained in us, that we were incapable of defeat