Many Broken Promises ''And Yet I Stand''

The book starts at the beginning of the Jim Crow era with the births of my maternal grandparents in 1884 and 1885. My story recounts my memories of their conversations during the civil rights struggles beginning in the 1950's and continued in tandem with my personal adversities thru my first college years during the race riots of the sixties. Becoming disillusioned with the many un-kept promises both in civil rights and my personal life I went on a search for personal "self identity" that took me thru the drug culture of the seventies and eighties bringing me full circle back to the current Virginia civil rights issues some forty years later. With a civil rights based scholarship I finally acquired a bachelor degree at age sixty three!