A Little Colored Girl Travels to Another World

About the Book

In the era of legal segregation, a “little colored” girl lives in three worlds: the restrictive Jim Crow world, her loving family and community world and the wide world of books she discovers, thanks to the integrated library her town built in the early nineteen sixties and the leadership of librarian Mrs. Margaret Reid Isbill. In 1961 an amendment to the American Library Association Bill of Rights essentially opened public library doors to everyone regardless of race, creed or national origin. “Colored girl” takes the reader to her worlds through historical references, poetry and colorful illustrations.

About the Author

“You can teach an old dog new tricks,” says the author, retired librarian from the C.G. O’Kelly Library at Winston-Salem State University. Many of her essays, stories, and poems were published in her senior years. They appear in Colorlines magazine, Twilight Musings, The Bears’ Tales, For Seniors Only, Flying South, and Second Spring Literary Anthology. Literary awards include Editor’s Choice and first place for poetry and essay selections. She is a charter member of New World Griots, a writing and performing group from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a current member of Writing Stories from Your Life, a writer’s group in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She has read some of her works at Bookmarks bookstore in the city. She has graduate degrees from North Carolina A&T State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Most of her nonfiction honors people who have gifted her with love.