Momma Slapped Jim Crow

The concept of Jim Crow, or rather the written and unwritten racist codes and laws used to oppress black people, can be abstract to most. Or something that may have only affected people under it every once in a while. However, if you were a poor, single parent, Black family in the 50's, Jim Crow and his 'kin folk' permeated every part of your existence. In his narrative, Andrew Johnson tells the story of his family's sojourn under this system. Told from the prospective of being the youngest child of ten, the reader is taken through stories that will bring tears, laughter and pride. Yes. Jim Crow was an awful scourge on this family as well as the country. However, through this book, the family through tears and terror shall triumph and show the reader how 'Momma Slapped Jim Crow.'

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Andrew Johnson is a native of Pine Bluff, Jefferson, Arkansas by way of Gould, Lincoln, Arkansas. After spending the first 13 years of his life in Gould; he moved with his family to Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He attended C.P. Coleman Middle'High School and graduated from Arkansas A.M.& N. College (now University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff) with a degree in Chemistry. Andrew had started writing poetry when he was in middle school and continued through high school. In college he was advised to pursue his abilities in the sciences since writers often starved to death and black writers were the first to go. Upon graduation from college, Andrew accepted a position at IBM Corporation and moved to upstate NY. He relocated to Austin, Texas and retired there in 2006. In his retirement; Andrew writes and is a genealogist. His son Andy is a writer and a professor of creative writing at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. His daughter Heather is ordained African Methodist Episcopal Minister and a practicing attorney in Atlanta, GA. His artsy granddaughter Nozomi in a student at Savannah College of Art and Design. Andrew lives alone and is active in his local church congregation.