Alice'S Chilluns

Take a journey with me into Alice's Chillun. Alice's Chillun is my own true story. It's about a Black family that astoundingly developed from a mostly rural environment. The children's circumstances, however, were within the bounds of a strong extended family, which was very prideful, with a dignified Black family history. A family of children who had all the problems of life stacked against them by the failures of their parents, but they were still able to overcome. They have become educated and reached different professional heights and levels within society in just one or two generations where they, their children and their grandchildren are well educated and/or rapidly becoming a family of all educated persons. The significant development of this family resulted from the dreams of our grandmother who implanted these dreams into her granddaughter. Grandmother ("Little Mother") never lost her love or dreams for her only child and her grandchildren. The dreams were then spread among the siblings she helped raise, her great-grandchildren and now, great-great-grandchildren. When we think of the term family, we wonder what that means. Do you think of it as a group of people who are connected through DNA, or do you just think of a mother, father and children? Do you think of an extended family that consists of grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, or do you think of a collection of people connected by love? I want you to think of my family as one sibling who was given the task to foster her siblings and other family members through life, during some very difficult times, in the early life stages of this family. In this book, you will see a varied definition of what family means-some by real connections, some not by blood alone, some by blood but not connected.

• | Author: Madeline Gervin-McCloud
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Mar 08, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 394 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1530450942
• | ISBN-13: 9781530450947