![]() ![]() What makes this story inspiring is that she succeeded against strong odds-raising her family in all-black lower-income neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens in New York City, where opportunities for her children to get into major trouble abounded how she did this is what makes this memoir read like a very well-plotted novel. Andrew McBride, died before he was born in 1957, and four more children were born during a second marriage), Ruthie Shilsky McBride Jordan infused her children with two values-a respect for education and religious belief. ![]() Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!"" With the help of two remarkable African American husbands (James is the youngest of eight McBride kids his father, Rev. Writer and musician McBride recounts a telling conversation with his mother: ""Am I Black or White?"" ""You're a human being. ![]()
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