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Synopsis
Sent to Indiana School for Girls at fourteen, a madam with a contract out on her at sixteen, and a single mother at twenty-four, MayLee Johnson tells an amazing story of growing up rough. It was the Catholic church, she says, that gave her a hand up, and gospel spirituals that have carried her through a difficult life "One Day at a Time."
"What a powerful story! This courageous author demonstrates the reality of a life of mountains and valleys - the conversion process as it truly is. Her story will find you dying and rising with this woman who prays only for faith. I was inspired by her vivid descriptions of what it means to be a Black woman among people in the Catholic church who cared and dared to reach out to her." - Jacqueline E. Wilson, Director of Black Catholics, Archdiocese, Washington DC
"Sobering. A moving, true-life story. Must reading for elementary and secondary students and their parents!" - Walter Hubbard, Former President, Nat. Catholic Conf. for Interracial Justice
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Coming up on the Rough Side : A Black Catholic Story
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Pillar Books, 1988
ISBN 10: 0944734014
ISBN 13: 9780944734018
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