Look Toward the Rising Sun of a New Day BegunNine year old Lizzie Ellison’s world shatters when, on a deserted stretch of highway between Jackson, MS and New Orleans, LA, two white men force her father, Daddy Clayton, to pull the family’s new luxury car off the road. Lizzie is stunned to see them treat her dad like a slave and steal the money Daddy Clayton had saved for this family vacation. Fortunately, Mama Lee has emergency money pinned inside her bra. So the trip continues and so does Lizzie’s education in the ways of jim crow. She and her two sisters, Darlene and Audrey, Lizzie learn from Mama Lee stories about the challenges black people faced during and after slavery and about the legend of the Sankofa bird that reminded slaves never to forget from whence they came. Liizzie’s childhood journey ends with three important decisions: to get married, to go North, and to enter graduate school.
The story spans eleven whirlwind years characterized by radical social changes. Racial prejudice is a constant. Yet she refuses to lose her bright dream. Her story is not simply about race. Hers is a universal story, underpinned by ancestral wisdom, humor, and nostalgia. |
Book Details:
390 pages Black and White 6 x 9 inches |
ISBNs:
eBook 978-1-5255-3130-9 Paperback 978-1-5255-3129-3 Hardcover 978-1-5255-3128-6 |
Categories:
FIC019000, BIO026000, FIC014000 |
Keywords:
Emancipation, Segregation, Slavery, Memoir, Literary, Civil Rights Movement, Mississippi |
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