Born and Raised in Sawdust: My Journey Around the World in Eighty Years is the deeply moving autobiography of Lewis Thigpen as a black boy growing up in a loving family in a small, tight knit community in the deep South during the extremely segregated Jim Crow era.
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Fearful of being a farm worker or common laborer for the rest of his life, he joined the U.
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It captures his life on the farm and in school in a revealing, instructive, yet colorful way despite the discrimination he encountered.
Born and Raised in Sawdust: My Journey Around the World in Eighty Years is the deeply moving autobiography of Lewis Thigpen as a black boy growing up in a loving family in a small, tight knit community in the deep South during the extremely segregated Jim Crow era
