Prejudice and Pardon - by Laura Smucker
Photo Credit: TGS International
Title: Prejudice and Pardon
Author: Laura Smucker
Grade Level: 7&8th
Lillie's great-grandparents were slaves. Her grandparents were sharecroppers. Her parents moved north to find jobs away from sharecropping. Lillie herself found work in a white world, enrolled her children in a white school, and saw her son as the first black valedictorian in that white school. This is Lillie's story. It is a story of United States history. It is a story of a life of struggle. It has hard and ugly things (like her husband's unfaithfulness). Yet, this is also a story of victory as Lillie learns surrender to God and faithfully follows His leading.
