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Carrie's Children: How One Mother Prepared Her Children to Become Selma's Foot Soldiers

Clarence T. Jones

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Description:Behind every child brave enough to march stood a mother brave enough to let them go. Selma, Alabama, 1950s-60s. Carrie Louise Lundy raises nine children alone while working as a nurse, midwife, and lab technician. Her husband, a WWII veteran, cannot return from Cleveland—economic systems designed to keep Black families separated have made the distance unbridgeable.Carrie learned strength from her mother, Hettie Lundy, the matriarch of Saint Ann Street, who taught that service to others was life's highest calling. From 1421 Sylvan Street, three blocks from Brown Chapel AME Church, Carrie practices that calling in ways that will change American history.Working alongside Dr. Isabelle Dumont, a German medical missionary, she brings hundreds of Black children safely into a world determined to diminish them. Her Singer sewing machine creates school uniforms that mean dignity. She chooses rigorous Catholic education at Saint Elizabeth, taught by the missionary Sisters of Saint Joseph. Through years of radical trust and high expectations, she builds what she calls "raised to fly"—a parenting philosophy that prepares her children for courage.When the civil rights movement intensifies, Carrie's children—some as young as ten—attend mass meetings led by Hosea Williams, John Lewis, and James Bevel. They march on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965, facing violence that shocks the nation.They are ready. Not from a sudden brave decision, but because preparation was always the point.Carrie's Children documents what most civil rights narratives overlook: the foot soldiers who marched, the mothers who allowed them, the community networks that sustained both survival and revolution in Jim Crow Alabama.This is the story of an extraordinary woman who understood that love meant preparing children for a world she would never see.Table of Contents:Prologue: What We CarryChapter 1: Where We Come FromChapter 2: The Power to HealChapter 3: Carrie's House on Sylvan StreetChapter 4: The Impossible DistanceChapter 5: Bringing LifeChapter 6: The Days of Pea Shelling PartiesChapter 7: There Goes Carrie's KidsChapter 8: The Sacred and the MovementChapter 9: The March Begins in SelmaChapter 10: Raised to FlyChapter 11: Courtship of CourageChapter 12: Atlanta RisingEpilogue: The Sacred Memory of Sylvan StreetWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Carrie's Children: How One Mother Prepared Her Children to Become Selma's Foot Soldiers. To get started finding Carrie's Children: How One Mother Prepared Her Children to Become Selma's Foot Soldiers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 268

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Patrich-Turner Publishing/Nouveau Press

Release: 2026

ISBN: 1889101141

Description: Behind every child brave enough to march stood a mother brave enough to let them go. Selma, Alabama, 1950s-60s. Carrie Louise Lundy raises nine children alone while working as a nurse, midwife, and lab technician. Her husband, a WWII veteran, cannot return from Cleveland—economic systems designed to keep Black families separated have made the distance unbridgeable.Carrie learned strength from her mother, Hettie Lundy, the matriarch of Saint Ann Street, who taught that service to others was life's highest calling. From 1421 Sylvan Street, three blocks from Brown Chapel AME Church, Carrie practices that calling in ways that will change American history.Working alongside Dr. Isabelle Dumont, a German medical missionary, she brings hundreds of Black children safely into a world determined to diminish them. Her Singer sewing machine creates school uniforms that mean dignity. She chooses rigorous Catholic education at Saint Elizabeth, taught by the missionary Sisters of Saint Joseph. Through years of radical trust and high expectations, she builds what she calls "raised to fly"—a parenting philosophy that prepares her children for courage.When the civil rights movement intensifies, Carrie's children—some as young as ten—attend mass meetings led by Hosea Williams, John Lewis, and James Bevel. They march on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965, facing violence that shocks the nation.They are ready. Not from a sudden brave decision, but because preparation was always the point.Carrie's Children documents what most civil rights narratives overlook: the foot soldiers who marched, the mothers who allowed them, the community networks that sustained both survival and revolution in Jim Crow Alabama.This is the story of an extraordinary woman who understood that love meant preparing children for a world she would never see.Table of Contents:Prologue: What We CarryChapter 1: Where We Come FromChapter 2: The Power to HealChapter 3: Carrie's House on Sylvan StreetChapter 4: The Impossible DistanceChapter 5: Bringing LifeChapter 6: The Days of Pea Shelling PartiesChapter 7: There Goes Carrie's KidsChapter 8: The Sacred and the MovementChapter 9: The March Begins in SelmaChapter 10: Raised to FlyChapter 11: Courtship of CourageChapter 12: Atlanta RisingEpilogue: The Sacred Memory of Sylvan StreetWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Carrie's Children: How One Mother Prepared Her Children to Become Selma's Foot Soldiers. To get started finding Carrie's Children: How One Mother Prepared Her Children to Become Selma's Foot Soldiers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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