Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Later, another speaker read a letter from a mother with a daughter in Belgrade. "Our Easter used to be a day of joy and happiness. Not this time," the letter read. "We'll spend it in the shelter praying...
These are the words of Freddie Mae Baxter, born into a poor family in the rural South 75 years ago. When her mother died, the teenage Freddie Mae left for the North, seeking work as a domestic. After a lifetime of caring for others--children and old people--she started talking into a tape recorder at the behest of a writer friend named Gloria Bley Miller, recalling what it was like to grow up in a big family in a little house with no indoor plumbing; to pick cotton; to live in "jivey" 1940s Harlem. Miller edited the reminiscences...
...small." Exemplifying these qualities are the stories of Yvette Audet, 66, a Maine widow who writes detailed accounts of her childhood: of rising before dawn on cold mornings to pick potatoes on neighboring farms, of kneeling nightly with her family and reciting the Rosary. Before Audet, a mother of six, began taking Ledoux's workshop in Lewiston, she taught herself to type and even went back to school to get a general equivalency diploma. Audet's education was ended after eighth grade so she could care for younger siblings while their parents worked in a mill. She still uses...
...shows and that she was about to toss me an upgrade. In fact, Nasrin was a recent emigre who had twisted her schedule around to be at the event. Her story of brutality shocked me out of my fear of a middle seat. She'd fled here with her mother, leaving behind a father in prison and female relatives plunged into the Dark Ages. No one has misinformed her. Leno and the Feminist Majority look like her best chance to go home again...
...last week's sorrows, who seem determined to wait it out. For them, things can't get much worse. Qamil Jupaj, 28, huddled with thousands of other refugees in Kukes, told of Serb soldiers burning his house and whipping him with their guns. "They asked me for money. My mother stepped forward and said, 'Why do you ask him for money? He doesn't have any.' They hit her in the face with the gun." He paused. "If I didn't die yesterday, I'll never...