ASIN: B00P0339FU
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 332
Two men, separated by more than a century, face common challenges of hatred, prejudice, and government bureaucracy as they labor to break the chains of poverty.Tyquan Donae Morrison was born in the Dirty D projects of New Orleans to an unwed mother. TQ, as he was known in the hood, never knew his father and had only his brother and sister as role models. Early attempts at improving himself through education fail as the school system dumbs down the curriculum and matriculates students who never attend classes. Life in the projects emphasizes the racial divide separating the blacks from whites, creating hatred on both sides.Life changes for Tyquan when his caught shoplifting at the only general store still operating in the projects. A caring gesture by the Jewish store owner opens a whole new world to TQ as he learns about the struggles of a runaway slave.Thomas Augustus Johnson, a ...
