Raised in 1950s South Carolina, faced with the barriers of race, gender and economic status, it all started with $60 and a dream.
Her church collected nickels, dimes and quarters for her initial $60 tuition for nursing school. That provided the bridge she needed to get from the cotton field to nursing school and on to an unexpected and unprecedented successful military and civilian career journey.
The dream was hers. While picking cotton with her 10 brothers and sisters, when planes flew over, shed tell them one day I will fly and work on an airplane. They and others laughed-doubting that...
Raised in 1950s South Carolina, faced with the barriers of race, gender and economic status, it all started with $60 and a dream.
About the Book: Many people start life in a less than opportune place. They yearn for something more IN their life, more TO their life, and must create opportunities for themselves. I've felt the drudgery of the daily ritual, of work in a place I didn't want to be with a hot sun blistering me. Hard manual labor in the cotton fields, day in and day out, is just that; a painful grind. And though the opportunity to earn money to help my family was appreciated, those days in the field spent in sweltering heat, bending and pulling over and over again until even young muscles and joints became...
About the Book: Many people start life in a less than opportune place. They yearn for something more IN their life, more TO their life, and must creat...
