GIRLCHILD: GROWING UP BETWEEN THE PINES AND PALMS IN JIM CROW GEORGIA AND FLORIDA A Memoir

This memoir is a legacy project as well as a history lesson. No, there are no lectures or footnotes. It is a first-person retelling of pivotal years of her youth, during a seemingly fixed, yet slowly transforming period in our nation. The author was a Black child born into the post-World War II world of Jim Crow segregation. She grew up in two adjoining states of the old Confederacy-South Georgia and South Florida. Being the first Black child born on the all-White Air Force base in Lowndes ...