The author illuminates a little-known aspect of black American life, and shares the rich, warm and vivid recollections of her own family, and their experiences, as well as of moments in history, such as the the March on Washington and Dr. King's "I have a dream" speech. She shares with us times of triumph and achievement, both for her family and black Americans, as well as those times when they suffered from prejudice and discrimination. Without bitterness, she explores and analyzes colorism among both whites and blacks, as it exists in this country, and traces the path by which she came to reject color bias, and to realize her true identity as a woman of multi-ethnic background, as an American, and as a human being whose strength and hope spring from ancestors who came to this country in chains, ancestors who came of their own free will, and ancestors who occupied this land for thousands of years.
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...multilayered and moving account of one prominent African American family's heroic 300-year struggle... -- Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, Ph.D., Author of Race and Justice: Rodney King and O.J. Simpson in a House Divided
It is a rich and vivid account of the determined family's history--from slavery to freedom. It is a must read. -- Courtland Milloy, Columnist, The Washington Post
This is a story of a place and its people, of a family whose ancestral mixture is Native American, African, and European. -- Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Ph.D., Harvard University
It is a rich and vivid account of the determined family's history--from slavery to freedom. It is a must read. -- Courtland Milloy, Columnist, The Washington Post
This is a story of a place and its people, of a family whose ancestral mixture is Native American, African, and European. -- Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Ph.D., Harvard University
About the Author
Susie Nickens Ludlow is a native of Gainesville, Virginia, where she received her early education. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of the District of Columbia, and a Master of Arts degree from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Mrs. Ludlow was employed in the D.C. Public Schools as an elementary teacher, summer school administrator, and a guidance counselor. In 1970, she was awarded the Agnes and Eugene Meyer Award for travel and study in seven European countries. In 1973, she retired, married Paul Ludlow, and moved to Oakland, California, where she served for six years as a member of the Oakland Museum Board of California. She was a contributing author for a collection of stories, Black Women Stirring the Waters. Mrs. Ludlow has one daughter, three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
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