Glenda Williams Goodson's Books

Glenda Williams Goodson has written on the life of Church of God in Christ pioneers for many years. In her new book, she edits essays on the life of Dr. Arenia Conelia Mallory, one of the foremost educators in America. Mallory, a middle class Black from Jackson, Illinois entered the Southland at the request of Church Of God In Christ founder Bishop Charles Harrison Mason. Soon after her arrival at the Saints Industrial and Literary School in Lexington, Mississippi the principal died and the 22 year became the President of a school with little income, only two books for the entire school with outdoor facilities. With faith in God and determination, she changed the face of Holmes County through succeeded in educating the children of impoverished sharecroppers, despite obstacles such as threats of lynching by the KKK when she refused to fire white teachers. On the 300 acres she amassed for the school, Mallory would add a high school, an accredited college, partner with a sorority to provide health care to those who never visited a doctor and her students would give a command performance in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's White House.A strategic planner, Mallory was Innovative, seemingly fearless and motivated to make a difference in the world. She traveled to shanties to rescue children from poverty and ignorance, North with her all female gospel singing group to raise funds for the school and to Africa where she brought children from the COGIC schools there to educate at her school.Many students would graduate from universities and worked as college professors, at least one became the General Consul to Liberia and others worked in the space program while heeding her admonition to Walk in Dignity, Talk with Dignity and Live in Dignity.

Book's by Glenda Williams Goodson

Royalty Unveiled

Royalty Unveiled

Rediscovering an American Classic

Rediscovering an American Classic

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