Hard Times And Survival; The Autobiography Of An African-American Son
iUniverse
ISBN13:
9781532060762
$46.59
Hard Times and Survival: The Autobiography of an African American Son is my story. It is how I overcame all the heartbreaking, brutal, and horrendous circumstances that I was born into in 1947. I saw it all in my first sixteen years: unbridled lust, gross immorality, damning lies, and terrible brutality by my father against me and my mother. He tried to kill me once but kept up a constant campaign of horrible abuses of my mother until I left home at sixteen. However, success is the best revenge! After three years of alcoholism, I pulled myself together and went back to school on my own. That was after I spent a year in Job Corps from 1966 to 1967. From 1975 to 1977, I went to Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville. From 1977 to 1980, I attended Virginia State University in Petersburg. I earned my BA and MA degrees. I studied above a master's at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville from 1980 to 1983. I did not graduate, but I learned valuable life lessons. I started to write in 1993 about what had happened to me over the years and how I used my dire circumstances as motivation to pick myself up and make my life better. I hope I am an example that will help others who are suffering through similar atrocities to be motivated to not give up but persevere and that they will, as I did, overcome anything they are being faced with.
- | Author: William A. James Sr.
- | Publisher: iUniverse
- | Publication Date: Oct 19, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 514 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Philosophy
- | ISBN-10: 1532060769
- | ISBN-13: 9781532060762
- Author:
- William A. James Sr.
- Publisher:
- iUniverse
- Publication Date:
- Oct 19, 2018
- Number of pages:
- 514 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover/Philosophy
- ISBN-10:
- 1532060769
- ISBN-13:
- 9781532060762