School Days has been written to enhance children’s understanding of the history of the Southern United States of America. Knowing how people lived back in the day helps to understand much of the way we live and think today. Failure to understand the past will ensure that as Americans, we will continue to make many of the same mistakes moving forward. Those who read this book can understand our true history and can seek to promote human dignity for all Americans.
During the Jim Crowe Era in Alabama, African- American children were told by their parents and teachers that they had to be ten times better than their white counterparts, just to stay even. Striving to be ten times better became the standard of behavior for Dr. Joice Christine Bailey Lewis who achieved success with ten times fewer resources and against ten times greater odds. What sustained her during the most diffi cult times was the evidence that her people had survived the hardships faced during two periods of slavery: the enslavement of Africans and the era of Sharecropping. Raised on a sharecropping farm and having no money to go to college, Dr. Lewis, nevertheless found a way to achieve a doctoral degree and experience success as an educator.
The Mule in the Bedroom has been written to enhance children’s understanding of the history of the Southern United States of America. Knowing how people lived back in the day helps to understand much of the way we live and think today. Failure to understand the past will ensure that as Americans, we will continue to make many of the same mistakes moving forward. Those who read this book can understand our true history and can seek to promote human dignity for all Americans.
Dr. Joice Christine Bailey Lewis wrote My Ancestral Voices at the age of seventy-four. She tells stories about people and events that occurred in the Alabama community where her ancestors lived for five generations. Dr. Lewis uses autobiographies and biographies to describe events by details and dialogue that are either true, assumed, or plausible. Dr. Lewis, a member of the fifth generation, tells how she drew strength from the historical accounts of survival of people through slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, racial segregation, educational inequality, sharecropping, the civil rights movement, the Second World War, Northern and Western Diaspora, and her ancestors beating great odds to succeed in landowning and community development and in fields of medicine, law, education, and business. The Holly Springs Missionary Baptist Church was erected by the first generation of ancestors who were all freed slaves. It is still in service to the community of Romulus (Ralph) Alabama. The church stands as a monument to its members, who rose up from slavery to create a lasting legacy of hope, love, and family.
School Days has been written to enhance children’s understanding of the history of the Southern United States of America. Knowing how people lived back in the day helps to understand much of the way we live and think today. Failure to understand the past will ensure that as Americans, we will continue to make many of the same mistakes moving forward. Those who read this book can understand our true history and can seek to promote human dignity for all Americans.
The Mule in the Bedroom has been written to enhance children’s understanding of the history of the Southern United States of America. Knowing how people lived back in the day helps to understand much of the way we live and think today. Failure to understand the past will ensure that as Americans, we will continue to make many of the same mistakes moving forward. Those who read this book can understand our true history and can seek to promote human dignity for all Americans.
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