Ann W. Yearwood will sign her most recent book - Fifteen Red Roses: The Challenges of Public School Integration in Rural Georgia - March 1 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at A Novel Experience in Zebulon.
Local author signs books March 1
Local author Ann W. Yearwood will sign her most recent book March 1 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at A Novel Experience in Zebulon.
Yearwood, of Concord, is the author of Fifteen Red Roses: The Challenges of Public School Integration in Rural Georgia. The book is about high school teacher Eve Windham and the struggles that took place in the 1960s in rural education systems.
In fall 1962, Windham begins her high school teaching career with enthusiasm: ‘I’ll be the best teacher they ever had!’ By the spring of 1969, the power of the Civil Rights Movement reaches Janus County, resulting in a court order to integrate the public schools the next fall.
Windham faces possible violence with courage and perseveres to create new grading systems and group activities for her mixed classes. She transports contestants and judges to debate competitions. She sits in long, continuous meetings ‘for the boys and girls.’ She laughs and cries as she interacts with family, colleagues and administrators. She prays as she seeks to interpret for her teenagers war and death in Vietnam, bitter disappointment, baffling college standards and demonstrations and a shifting culture.
In fall 1962, Windham begins her high school teaching career with enthusiasm: ‘I’ll be the best teacher they ever had!’ By the spring of 1969, the power of the Civil Rights Movement reaches Janus County, resulting in a court order to integrate the public schools the next fall.
Windham faces possible violence with courage and perseveres to create new grading systems and group activities for her mixed classes. She transports contestants and judges to debate competitions. She sits in long, continuous meetings ‘for the boys and girls.’ She laughs and cries as she interacts with family, colleagues and administrators. She prays as she seeks to interpret for her teenagers war and death in Vietnam, bitter disappointment, baffling college standards and demonstrations and a shifting culture.
Best of luck on Fifteen Roses, Mrs. Yearwood ...keep 'em coming!