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Janis F. Kearney, former Personal Diarist to President William J. Clinton, founded Writing our World Press, in 2004, and debuted her first book, Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir, that same year. The coming of age narrative shares a firsthand look into the life and struggles of Arkansas' black cotton sharecroppers and chronicles hers and her 18 siblings' lives as impoverished laborers who survived thanks to two undereducated, but wise parents who gave them the permission to dream. The memoir follows Kearney's journey from the cotton fields of the small town of Gould, to her role in 1987 as managing editor of the most prestigious southern newspaper of the civil rights era, the Arkansas State Press, co-founded by civil rights legend Daisy Lee Gatson Bates, the face and voice of the 1957 Central High Integration Crisis.Kearney's story, which spans three decades, paints a riveting portrait of America's pre-civil rights south, and the racial and cultural struggles that continued well beyond the 1963 March on Washington, and even beyond the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Kearney makes it clear that King Cotton's over-arching shadow over generations of black southerners; died a slow and painful de

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Author

Janis F. Kearney

Publisher

Janis F. Kearney

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780976205838

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Biography

Rating

4.14 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14