Patti K Wilson

A firsthand look at a not-so-long ago era in American history by an author who lived its pages -- join Katie Jane Taylor and Ardella, the housekeeper, as together their families weather illness, hardship, hatred and prejudice -- all in a town where blacks and whites didn't mix. Early rumblings of th...

Separate Fountains by Patti Wilson Byars Early rumblings of the Civil Rights Movement shook many towns across the South in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and in Separate Fountains, author Patti Wilson Byars shows that her hometown of Jonesboro, Georgia was not excluded. Jonesboro reflected the typi...