Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Children Will Go to School Because the School is Warm...

The weatherman predicted freezing temperatures for the region, a swath of land in the impoverished black-belt. My friend teaches in a consolidated school for the region. He said to me, "We will have a full house tomorrow; the school is warm; and the students will get something to eat."

Lucille

A Speech Delivered by  The  Daughter of A Tenant Farmer In Her High School Junior Year,  1927 Her Family Worked the Land Near Millport Alaba...