Back to Mississippi: Sidewalks Represent a Journey to the Paths of My Success, Follow My Steps and Take the Journey!

Geraldine Hollis

Xlibris Corporation, Sep 26, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 332 pages

Mississippi Got the Message!

Imagine being one of nine students out of five hundred, chosen to change history.
Imagine having such great impact on the Sovereignty Commission and the white citizens of Mississippi that the state eventually made a 180 degree turn in its attitude towards its black citizens.
Imagine what kind of person could be involved in such a thing. Or just read the book!

Contents

• Acknowledgement: 9
• Introduction: 13
• The Journey Begins from When my memory of what Was Surfaced: 19
• The Beginning of the Destination Getting to Mississippi: 25
• From Vidalia to Orange to Vidalia to Natchez: 27
• Natchez Mississippi: 39
• Ray Street and the House that our Dad Built: 44
• Learning through Development Educationally Emotionally and Physically: 59
• My Birthday Present and other Gifts: 61
• Miss Haynes a Favorite Teacher: 74
• TOUGALOO COLLEGE: 79
• Making the transformation from High School: 81
• Finances and Making it Through Tougaloo College: 87
• Tougaloo College Campus Experiences: 93
• CHALLENGING THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI FOR EQUITY ON BEHALF OF ALL CITIZENS: 103
• The Invitation The Forums The Selection and Eventual Acknowledgment: 105
• The Mentality The Planning and The Preparation: 113
• The Event and The Action: 118
• Incarceration: 123
• Aftermath of Incarceration in Jackson and other parts of Mississippi: 131
• The Media the Effect and the Results Produced by the Library Sitin: 136
• After the Aftermath: 143
• Life in the Aftermath of Civil Disobedience: 145
• History Events Risks and Change taken by the Nine: 150
• Voting Rights: 167
• Voting was a Challenge under Suppression Not a Right: 169
• The Results of Tougaloo Civil Disobedience on My Career in Mississippi: 177
• Student Teaching and Life Lessons: 179
• My First Teaching Job: 193
• You cannot escape all the changes in Lifes Journey: 201
• Some things are Major Distractions: 203
• Family Time to Heal: 217
• The Vacation: 219
• A New Family Direction: 225
• Married Life: 227
• The Move to California: 236
• The Reasons to Return to Mississippi for Those Who Leave: 245
• Returning Home to Mississippi: 247
• The Tougaloo Nine: 257
• The 45th Anniversary Celebration: 259
• Back to Mississippi Journey or Destiny: 285
• Making a trip not easily forgotten: 287
• The Reunions: 298
• A Journey or Destiny?: 311
• Where do we go from here?: 313
• The Yearlong Program of the 45th Anniversary of the Tougaloo Nine and the 2006 Educational Program with comments: 321
• The yearlong Program: 323

Bibliographic information

• Title: Back to Mississippi: Sidewalks Represent a Journey to the Paths of My Success, Follow My Steps and Take the Journey!
• Author: Geraldine Hollis
• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation, 2011
• ISBN: 146536823X, 9781465368232
• Length: 332 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Women