A moving, inspiring true story of courage, dignity, grace and heart that overcame the challenge of being left a widow at 33, with six children ages 2-12, in the middle of the great depression. Set in Auburn, Al and written by the daughter of "The Widow".
In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, 12-year-old Rose Lee Jefferson sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate the black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town. Includes a reader's guide.
A moving, inspiring true story of courage, dignity, grace and heart that overcame the challenge of being left a widow at 33, with six children ages 2-12, in the middle of the great depression. Set in Auburn, Al and written by the daughter of "The Widow".
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