ISBN: 0-7414-6501-9 ©2011 Price: $15.95 Book Size: 8.5" x 11" , 82 pages Category/Subject: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / People of Color
Abstract: What was life like in the early 1900’s for a poor family of African American ancestry? What were some of the challenges faced by almost 100 year old Nellie Sue Macon? Join Nellie Sue as she tells this true story of her life – in book and accompanying CD - from her family’s multi-cultural heritage from slavery and rape in Mississippi to the segregated schools in Illinois. Follow her through the Depression where she sometimes earned 25 cents a day to Washington State and find out who threatened to throw her from the bridge and why…