“Dr. Cleaster Whitehurst-Mims is an extraordinary and innovative educator, political activist, and philanthropist whose journey carried her from the peanut fields to founder and chief executive off...lihat lebih banyak“Dr. Cleaster Whitehurst-Mims is an extraordinary and innovative educator, political activist, and philanthropist whose journey carried her from the peanut fields to founder and chief executive officer of her own private boarding school. The lessons of faith, fortitude, and frugality learned while working on the land became the spiritual tools she used to confront life's challenges, fight life's foes, and conquer life's adversities in order to pull and pick others up from the dust of despair. ‘One Peanut at a Time’ is a step-by-step guided tour of eighty years of living and learning, patience and persistence, selfless sacrifice and service.”
—Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney, Esq.
“‘One Peanut at a Time’ reveals the life of a sharecropper's daughter who was nurtured on the land and encouraged by a close, spiritual family and knitted in a unified black farm community. In Dr. Cleaster Whitehurst-Mims' humble background, love reigned supreme. The earth yielded more than copious peanut crops. It cultivated a life of self-determination, commitment, and self-confidence that prepared her to rise up and to build for herself and others. “
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