By Richelene Mitchell,Imam Zaid Shakir
Ms. Mitchell was once born within the rural south, the daughter of an African American sharecropper. She could enterprise to the northern ghetto of Philadelphia to augment her academic possibilities. consequently, her formative years was once formed by means of the dual forces defining African American lifestyles within the 20th Century, the agricultural south and the city north.
An honor scholar in highschool, Ms. Mitchell's promising educational profession used to be curtailed through an ultimately failed marriage that resulted in a collection of situations which rendered her a unmarried mom of 7 childrens dwelling in a sprawling public housing venture in New Britain, Connecticut. pressured to accommodate the humiliation of public guidance, she chronicled a 12 months of her existence, 1973, in
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