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At the age of 9, Ruth loved school. She didn't much care for the walk she had to make to get there every day, however, and didn't really enjoy the chores that she and her sisters had to do each day as well. Racial segregation was alive and well in those days and white Americans kept African Americans in a subordinate status by denying them equal access to public facilities, such as buses, theaters and restaurants. When allowed into auditoriums and theaters, blacks occupied separate sections. They also attended segregated schools and churches, like Ruth and her family. But this was how life was in 1933, at school, in the community and around the farm where she lived and played. Read her absorbing story here, to get a feel for what life was like in the United States not so very long ago.

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Kimberly Jones is a professional early childhood educator. Jones was born in the small town of Saint George, South Carolina, on September 12, 1982. She graduated from Woodland High School in 2000, Benedict College in 2004 with a bachelors of science in child and family development, and from Ashford University in 2013 with a master's in early childhood education. After receiving her education, she held several jobs as a preschool teacher and preschool director, but she wanted to put her education to use by writing children's books. She began to write children's books about slavery. She came across an article that explained how teachers could not implement such books into their lessons because the pictures were too violent. So, she decided to come up with fiction children's books that could be implemented in lessons, read in classrooms, and read at home by parents to their younger children.

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