How It Happens

by Jean Alicia Elster

Book Overview

Intergenerational story of three Black women and their struggle to stake their claim to the American dream.

How It Happens follows the story of author Jean Alicia Elster's maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Jackson. Born in Tennessee in 1890, Dorothy May was the middle daughter of Addie Jackson, a married African-American housekeeper at one of the white boardinghouses in town, and Tom Mitchell, a commanding white attorney...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814348696
• ISBN13: 9780814348697
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12