Trenholm, Portia Yvonne

Portia Yvonne Trenholm is an African American native of Montgomery, Alabama, the Cradle of the Confederacy. She grew up during the 1930s and 1940s on the campus of Alabama State College, a predominately black institution led by her father, the late Dr H. Councill Trenholm, Sr. Encounters with racial segregation hidden in crevices of her unconscious, she grew up with a secure self-confidence nurtured by a caring family, masterful teachers and neighbors in the village of her youth. The world seemed almost perfect until she boarded a train for graduate school in the north. There, racism on its fa...