Memoir of Emili-Rose
Celebration of a Journey
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Chapter 10
No School, She’s Colored
The year was 1940. Emili-Rose sat on the front
porch steps of her home at Plantation Farm, watching
an occasional car or truck drive by. She walked down
the steps to pull petals from Mama’s fl ower-bed. She
picked a yellow daisy.
Suddenly the big yellow bus passed by on its way
to school.
“Mama, the children are going to school,” Emili-
Rose, cried. She ran into the house. “How come we are
not going to school too, Mama?” Today was not the
fi rst time Emili-Rose had watched that bus go by. She
longed to be on it.
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About the Book
In the story, Emili-Rose is the most celebrated character, who wants to be all that she can be and like the sands in the hour glass, she is compelled toward her destiny despite the ill-will and bewildering jim crow laws. Thanks to the firm and gentle prod of her parents. She is Utopia's dreamer, a Black female youth, sensitive and with her head in the clouds, but like Mumble in Happy feet, she is ever reminded by the jim crow laws that she is colored. Diifferent. Memoir of Emili-Rose-Celebration of a Journey is a work of nonfiction written in fictional narrative. The time is pre-World War 2, set in rural south-west Mobile, Alabama County. Each page relive true experiences of Emili-Rose and her family as they cope in a microcosm society. The story does not take away the victimizatiom of this Black family, nor does it take away from the biting stings that threatens a little girl's dreams, but in a gentle way, the author shares her heart through the eyes of a child, as only a child can tell. Emili-Rose invites you, the reader to a sobering, life-affirming, and exhilarating glimpse of her past.
About the Author
The author is a native Alabamian. She grew up in the deep south, prior to the onset of the modern Civil Rights Movement. From her own experiences, she has cleverly, crafted and woven difficult themes of fear and triumph, bigotry and compassion, unimaginable hatred and unconditional love, into a book that will cause readers to stand up and cheer.
Amid the confusion of her childhood, Emili-Rose’s remarkable parents instilled in her, inner strength, and the ability to envision a new and a better tomorrow.
The author is a graduate of the Mobile County Public Schools, an earned Bachelor of Science degree, a Master of Education degree, and a successful teaching career. She has also done further studies beyond her degrees.
She attest that, her success in life has been a life of commitment toward her dreams and living by the Golden Rule.