Son of Tenant Farmers

<p>Cecil A. Brown was born in the rural South seventeen days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor to a family of tenant farmers.</p><p>Growing up his family did it all: the planting harvesting and marketing. The landowner provided the land and took a significant portion of any proceeds.</p><p>Somehow Brown's parents sent all nine of their children to college with the author earning a bachelor of science in agricultural education and a master's degree in counseling. In this memoir he recalls what it was like growing up amid racism and segregation.</p><p>At one point he was paid less than two fellow white employees because he had graduated from a historically black university.</p><p>Another time he was told by a white man that there were no blacks in the South qualified for a promotion but perhaps there were some in New York.</p> <p>Join the author as he examines our not-so-distant racist past and how he overcame racism anxiety and alcohol abuse to live a life filled with meaning and love.</p>