I was a child of the Super Sixties and came of age during Flower Children, Hippies, and Black Power. However, I grew up in a small town in Central California famous for it's Cotton and Cattle, Corcoran California. Now it's famous because Charles Mason is imprisoned there, Prison is a huge industry in California.Corcoran was a sleepy little town and when I was growing up although Civil Rights we...

My first grade teacher was beautiful and looked a lot like a younger version of the movie star Sofia Loren. Fresh out of the Peace Corp she like so many others of her generation was out to save the world and definitely made a difference. I can still picture her in her tight pencil skirt and beautiful black hair like my mama’s.My family was poor and worked alongside other migrant farm workers ...

The summer of 1959 I was eight years old when my family was uprooted from Angola the migrant camp we called home located approximately 10 miles southwest of Corcoran, California.  Named after the cotton gin nearby but now due to mechanization there was no need for human cotton pickers any longer. The owners decided to tear down the camp and clear the land displacing at least twenty families.My...

My first grade teacher was beautiful and looked a lot like a younger version of the movie star Sofia Loren. Fresh out of the Peace Corp she like so many others of her generation was out to save the world and definitely made a difference. I can still picture her in her tight pencil skirt and beautiful black hair like my mama’s.My family was poor and worked alongside other migrant farm workers in...