Author Description

Bette Jean Davis is a young colored girl living in the southern Jim Crow state of Louisiana. she lives with her mother and father and siblings. They are farmers who also pick cotton to make ends meet. Her life is pretty much routine until her father dies. Then she decides to take an extra job to help her mother send her older sister to school. she decides to keep the job in order to help send herself to college, but she soon learns that things don't always go as planned.