Flowers for Brother Mudd

Beyond Overcoming Judith Mudd-Krijgelmans Memoir Is One Of Hope And Resilience. Flowers For Brother Mudd: One Womans Path From Jim Crow To Career Diplomat Explores The Paradox Of An African American And A Catholic - A Minority Within A Minority - Who Craved A Wider Future. Find Out How A Girl From Louisville Kentuckys Smoke Town Forged Independent-Mindedness To Survive A Segregated Society. Learn What Propelled This Colored Girl To Jet Across The World For Three Decades In A Career That She Chose At Age 16. This Former Diplomat Recounts The Cushioning Love Of Her Upstanding Social Studies Teacher Father Who Rose From Tobacco Farming To Head A School In Coal Country; And Imaginative Mother From Virginias Blue Ridge Mountains. She Salutes The Ursuline Sisters; Educators At Morgan State And American Universities; And In India Where She Went On A Fulbright. In The Face Of A Bleak Future If Civil Rights Changes Hadnt Come She Shows How A Person Of Color Could Thrive And Strive To Tell Her Story To The World.