A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story
by
Dr. Yvonne S. Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
The Ditchdigger’s Daughters is a loving memoir of how a poor and uneducated black laborer, a child of the Great Depression, overcame incredible obstacles to give his daughters a better life. Dr. Thornton’s father fought in World War II as a Navy seaman, second class. By age twenty-seven he had five...