... about four years old her father decided to build a new house a couple of miles away from the farm. There were two houses on the farm and her grandma and grandpa Keeven lived in the other house. She was the fifth child born in the family and the house they lived in was getting crowded. By the time ... play with dolls or make mud pies." Both of sets of her grandparents still lived on farms, so every Sunday they would go to their grandma Korte's farm for a big dinner. While her mom and Grandma cooked, her dad would play with the kids on the farm. In the summer she would spend a week or two ...

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... the Missouri Pacific Railroad as a hostler's helper but they divorced when Melba was only 5. Besides Melba, she had two other people to support, Melba's brother Conrad and her mother Grandma India. Although Grandma India earned some money cleaning white people's houses, this was not a big part to the family's income. With Melba's decision to be one of the first to integrate Central ... and nowhere to turn for help. After the hardest year for that family, Mother Lois, unlike her daughter, stayed in Little Rock to raise her son Conrad. India Anette Peyton (Grandma India)-She watched two p...

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... always have my back. They have taught me to always have a positive attitude and to give a perfect effort. I believe these are the key ingredients to true joy and happiness. My grandma was one of a kind. She would always say that I was just as beautiful on the outside as I was on the inside. She taught me how to love people for who ... they are and it is what is on the inside that counts. My parents and grandma have just raised me so well, and have been an example of how I want to raise my own family. They have showed me how to love and respect others for ... who they are. I am so grate...

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... house a family of eleven. My Grandfather worked endlessly at a local mechanic shop which obtained most of its business from the surrounding farmers who would bring in their equipment for repair. Grandma, "The Ringmaster", as my dad describes, stayed at home and ran the "DeLaO Circus." Like many young kids in the mid-sixties and early seventies my ... nothing remained but the shimmer of the sun hitting the glass window. Satisfying their curiosity the three of them ventured outside only to find an empty porch decorated with my grandma's empty flower pots. Swiftly, my grandmother scolded t...

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... and to top it off I had to worry about recovering all the credits that I was missing from when I was doing bad in class back in Madera. I found out that the grandma I was close to passed away. Everything was falling down instead of falling into place. The people I started hanging out with smoked weed most of the time and I saw that they ... ...

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... and they talked to him about it, but also bought me a phone just in case it continued to happen. The phone's sole purpose was to call my mother, father, and grandma to let them know where I was at all times. It was never used as a social tool to communicate with my friends. As a six year old, I did not know much about ... ...

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... asking myself that question, I believe that my desire was influenced by the people and examples surrounding me. My mother encouraged me to express myself as much as I possibly could. My grandma drew when she was younger. Those two women were the most important people of all to push me to do more art. They gave me constructive criticism. I worked on my ... ...

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... coming weekend. Her mother said "Well, Jess I have to work but I"ll see what I can do." Knowing that Jessica never got to out with her friends, her mother had there grandma watch the kids so she could go to this party with her friends. When Jessica found out she jumped up and down. She hugged her mom and thanked her repeatedly ... ...

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... or write the Delany family was surpassing many of the expectations that were put on colored folks. The whole family was supportive of the idea of an education. It was Grandma Delany that stayed around to see her daughter through college in a proper manner. As stated in the book, "In the decades after the Civil War, education became the rallying cry ... ...

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