A.M. Stevens
M. A. Stevens, born and raised in the South amidst the advent of various forms of freedom, as a little girl, I felt the difference among my people. We were as outcasts in a progressing world. My parents knew the value of education and sent all of their eight children to school to be taught and "make" a better living for ourselves. I did not know what “picking” cotton was until my parents were taking me to college and I saw people in the fields. I did not know what "cropping" tobacco was until...
