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Alien in the Delta
Thankful Strother
ASIN: B00CF7LEWY
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 256

Alien in the Delta by Thankful Strother is an authentic story of determination, wit, and optimism. An Air Force veteran recounts his unlikely rise from rural poverty to the upper-middle class.Born in the Arkansas Delta in 1943, living in the 60's segregated rural South, Strother was the seventh child of poor parents. In his hometown, prejudice and inequality were practice openly. "Even though I loved the people in my community, I disliked intensely almost everything about where I grew up. I always felt out-of-place." As soon as he graduated from high school, he rushed to join the Air Force like his older brother Curtis. Experiencing racism from whites in the South while he was wearing his Air Force uniform--proof that he was willing to fight and die for the United States--brought home the discrimination Strother would face throughout his life. But the Air Force provided him the ...
Amazon Rating:
4 stars from 87 ratings