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God's Awful Truth: In Huntsville, Alabama in 1955, ten-year-old Priscilla narrates a saga rich in social customs when five children find a skull, uncover secrets, witn

God's Awful Truth: In Huntsville, Alabama in 1955, ten-year-old Priscilla narrates a saga rich in social customs when five children find a skull, uncover secrets, witn

          
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In Huntsville, Alabama during the mid 1950's Pricilla learns the back of the bus is "reserved for us colored folks." (autobiographical) We feel her embarrassment as she skulks to the front and her pride as she pulls out her Piggly Wiggly coin purse, digs out a dime and tosses it in the metal box for an old lady. Ca-ching. We can relate to her confusion later upon hearing about the arrests and convictions of Rosa Parks and two other children in Montgumra.' Priscilla stumbles over her Daddy's big words and wonders if her "meteors" are mixed; but her conversational descriptions of food, clothes and social customs are keen. Priscilla hangs out with her idiotic brother, turtle cousin, real pretend sister and first kiss underwater on the abandoned Randolph place. They dredge for their lost baseball and find the skull of the Mayor's vanished brother. In search of answers, they spend time with the sickly Mayor (he really is an ex-Mayor.) His beautiful and educated maid Ophelia seems to know much about the Randolph family since she worked there for years. They hear of tales of hoodoo, the Underground Railroad, child abuse, infidelity, murder and rape. By accident they are sole witnesses to the Mayor's hanging. Ophelia kicks the chair out from under his polished wingtips. "Dinner is served." Only then do they learn what happened to Jack. Ophelia is arrested. Was the Mayor's death euthanasia, murder, or suicide? They know about "Yellow Mama" Alabama's infamous electric chair in smoking detail and agree no one should die that way. Priscilla's conviction in what is fair never wavers, and she testifies God's awful truth. Rosa Parks, and children, Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith are in the story, and a reference section "Freedom Fighters" collects key female transportation activists as far back as 1854. Segregation stories, information about the acquisition and use of slaves for the Randolph plantation before the Civil War, and the practice of hoodoo as medicine and magic are historically based. This book cites Emily Post and excerpts of slave, Civil War, and civil rights songs.
About the Author: Marilyn moved to Huntsville, Alabama before the second grade, when the town was a little dot on the map and the space program a buzz. Her playmates were the offspring of Southern socialites and recently relocated German scientists. Her mother has degrees in home economics and armchair psychology. Her father was a key member of the early Von Braun rocket team. Marilyn attended Miss Irene's dance and manners class in the seventh grade and learned to box waltz and hold a punch cup. Her best friends were the debutantes. At 16, Marilyn placed in the 98th percentile in chemistry and enrolled in the University of Alabama. The next year, she cloistered herself at Judson woman's college, a lovely secluded old Southern institution in Marion, Alabama, where every evening was a dress-up, sit-down dinner and Saturday was formal gowns and step sings. She graduated with a BS in Math/Education and later earned a MS from Northern Illinois University in Education/Instructional Technology. Marilyn's first marriage was said to have been above her station. Her mother-in-law was so helpless in the kitchen that she had a full-time cooking maid who left a can of green beans in a saucepan with a can opener. She has since remarried and lives in Seattle with her husband, a Civil Engineer, and her cat Pepper. She has two grown daughters, one in Moscow, Russia, the other married in Seattle.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781483917542
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 306
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: In Huntsville, Alabama in 1955, ten-year-old Priscilla narrates a saga rich in social customs when five children find a skull, uncover secrets, witn
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1483917541
  • Publisher Date: 26 Mar 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 412 gr


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