Description
Book SynopsisFeatures twenty Black residents of a small Ohio River town who tell the stories of their lives. Here, black men and women of Madison describe the deprivations of discrimination: what it meant, personally and culturally, to be denied opportunities for participation in the educational, economic, political, and social life of the white community.
Table of ContentsI. All We Had Was Each Other
Elsie Perry Payne: We Belonged to the Community
Jim Lewis: Everybody Was My Family
John Coleman: Measures of Success
Pat Cosby: Grateful For My Blackness
II. The Struggle Makes You Strong
Evan Guess: Together in Strength
Betty Inskeep: Self Respect
Will Cosby: Hard Times and Good Times
Bill Guess: The Meaning of the Broadway School
Norval Johnson: The Story of My Life
Bernard Jenkins: They Needed Me, So I Stayed Home
Harriet Wells: Civil Rights
Frank Inskeep: Together We Did Some Good
III. The Nurturing Community
Chorus of Voices: Reverend Gaines Was Everything to Us
Carol Cosby Guess: The Community Made Me What I Am
Charles O'Banion: My Home
Grace Humes and John Humes: The Community Would Correct You
Norman O'Banion: Homemade Games
Mary Stewart, Sue Livers, Karen Douglas: Everybody's Children
Allen Watson: Progress
Denise Carter: The Struggle Goes On
