A Dream of Becoming the Most Ambitious Girl in My Community

A Dream of Becoming the Most Ambitious Girl in My Community is about the life of Erma Ruth Nelson, a Christian Black woman who, in the late 1940s, grew up in Saint Thomas, Jamaica. From age seven, this intelligent little girl was the only one among eight of her peers who was chosen to participate in child labor by teaching the daughter of a local doctor how to read. She did this for money to help her widowed mother take care of her and her remaining siblings who still lived at the house.

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