The Potato Patch

By L E Peeples and L.E. Peeples

The Good Ole' Days - good for some, not so much for others

As a Teacher in the Buffalo New York School District, I found that many of our African-American students were not familiar with their history, nor did they value Education, and at the insistence of a former English Teacher, I wrote The Potato Patch, to draw students closer to their culture, incorporating fiction and history from a different perspective. In summary, The Potato Patch, encourages readers to encounter history through story.

The 1950's brings up memories of Rosa Parks not giving up her seat on the bus, Jackie Robinson a pioneer in Baseball, or Thurgood Marshall as a Supreme Court Justice. The Potato Patch dives deeper into history as we find out how others in the black community participated during the Montgomery Boycott, uncovered the hypocrisy of baseball in the Negro Leagues, and the injustice of the long unfulfilled Brown vs. the Board of Education that kept schools separate despite the winning verdict.

Road trips, In-Laws, Christmas gatherings, fights, friends and food, are all part of The Potato Patch during a time when the "N" word cut like a knife, but it did not define the goals and aspirations of family where God came first, and Education was the key to a better life.

Create a playlist of Doo-Wop songs from each chapter and take a nostalgic journey with the Williams family, stopping by the Honey Shack for a night of dancing and pick up a home-cooked meal at the Potato Patch.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971057117
• ISBN13: 9780971057111
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Elonenam.Org
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"