Faye: A Biography - Hardcover

by Eunie Mae Gray (Author)

This book offers a unique look inside an African American sharecropper family, through the eyes and memories, of Mrs. Eunie Mae Gray. The fourth child in a family of fourteen children, Eunie Mae, was raised poor in material things, and rich in family, and community ties. The story Eunie Mae tells provides an interesting contrast to today. Born during World War I, Eunie Mae lived during the Jim Crow era in the south, the Great Depression, Race Riots, changes in farming that led to the end of sharecropping, and the start of World War II. Her first hand account is a delight to read.

Author Biography

Eunie Mae Stiggers, better known these days as: Faye Gray, chronicles the events from her childhood days, growing up in a sharecropper family, to the time she move away from her parents home in Terrell Texas. This memory filled, nostalgic biography has an upside, in that, it make us appreciate all that we have today; and a downside when she speaks about what has been lost over the years in family, and close community, ties. Eunie Mae's family moved often, to follow the crops, and she seldom ended up near a school; back then schools, for Negro children, closed during the harvest season. Still, her mother Carrie determined that her fourteen children learn to read and write, home-schooled them herself.