God's Step Chilluns: Poverty Raw and Evil, Naked and Ugly

By Mrs. Ann Odene Smith

God's Step Chilluns, Poverty Raw and Evil, Naked and Ugly, expresses the deep social need and the awareness of the problems which existed in the deep south, in particular, rural Mississippi. These problems of unimaginable poverty, naked, raw and evil are told by a rural school teacher, whose desire is to educate the Negroes, then and now. Meet Betty Curts, who lived in unimaginable poverty, her hopes and dreams and the young teacher who aided her. However, allegorically the story deals with social problems whose stigma still remains. Many feel as if God's doesn't care about their condition and they are forgotten; they feel like "God's Step Chilluns". The American Negro dream is to be completely free and independent as any human being should be. He wants the better things of life; to be an interfused member of the society in which he lives. The aspiration of the Negro to have the chance to prove his manhood in any career, field or position as any other human being. Looking back into history, one can truly say that there was indeed a very tangible beginning and the conditions evolved by spontaneous generations.The world knows that regardless of the past and the present of the Negro in America, the Negro can and will overcome most of his unwanted situations. They have come a long way and defeated much of the poverty in many areas of the South.Betty Curts and many more have done this with little help. With Betty, there was desire, determination, and stick-to-itiveness. She knew that she could succeed and she did succeed. She began her career with a school built especially for her on an island where children and many adults, had never seen a school. For eight years she worked alone. Later other teachers were needed, After pioneering this, she felt free to move onward and upward. Betty knows that the Negro had come from a long way in her generation. She knows there are more, many more that still live in filth, degradation, willing poverty and slavish contentment. The number is dwindling. She feels that until the world ends, there will be those of whom she terms "God's step chilluns."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479281905
• ISBN13: 9781479281909
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"