Born into the Jim Crow south in the period just after WWII, Cora is the ninth of fourteen children of a share-cropping family in north-central Mississippi… another mouth to feed, but also another-hand-in-the-fields… The Brown vs. Topeka decision which promised equal access to public education when she was 7 years old would not impact her community or her separate and unequal status…her intelligence and natural curiosity would be tolerated, seldom nurtured but remain persistent throughout childhood and adult life…creative energy has found outlets in varied pursuits and still finds a restless discharge in professional and hobby pursuits (teacher , minister, speech pathologist, caterer, seamstress, endless shopper, fisherman…explored mortuary science and realtor practice ) …her entrepreneurial spirit and ‘let’s do it’ attitude comes through whether in social ministry (soup kitchen) or envisioning publication of her life story…Cora has remained true to her own pursuit of life/liberty/happiness…and in that pursuit has contributed to the consternation, confusion, dismay, but often enough, the joy, of many others… She currently resides in Grenada, Mississippi with her husband Steve Ingram… she has two adult sons: J. Corey and Steven Ford residents of San Diego, California and Atlanta, GA. Cora also has two grandsons: Antonio Lipsey of Pontotoc, MS and Kyle Bentley Jaquez Ford, Atlanta, GA.
Sharecropper's Daughter
Wit Country Ham and Red Eye Gravy, Buttered Sugar Biscuits, Cheese & Eggs, Cow Milk, Home Made Ice Cream and Sweet Tea
by Cora A. Givhan Ford
Sharecropper's Daughter
Wit Country Ham and Red Eye Gravy, Buttered Sugar Biscuits, Cheese & Eggs, Cow Milk, Home Made Ice Cream and Sweet Tea
by Cora A. Givhan Ford
Published Jan 31, 2017
250 Pages
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Book Details
She “finds herself” (many times over) and now is testing both her voice, and the veracity of her memory...
One of the advantages of age, getting older (perhaps even maturing), is refection on our youth, and on life in general...and although we can only visit, and seldom actually return to our roots, the mental journey is always with us...Cora Ford Ingram has made the physical, mental, and spiritual journeys home many times and while she currently resides in Grenada, MS with her husband Steve, she has recorded, to the best of her “recollection”, the journey of her youth growing up in Pontotoc, Mississippi. Her memories of early life as part of a family nurtured, sheltered, and shielded, on a tenant farm, being a student at Pontotoc Attendance Center after consolidation but before integration, entering adult life by going to college, then marriage and parenthood...along the way, she “finds herself” (many times over) and now is testing both her voice, the veracity of her memory, and Her-story...it is a journey, personal, private, and public...it is the record to be titled: Sharecroppers’ Daughter...you are invited to read and witness fragments from each of our lives retold...looking back, and looking inward finding the connecting threads of which the fabric is made...it is a narrative, a search, a summative review, a beginning, again...