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Baptism in the Creek describes the way in which people were inducted into the Baptist Church back in the day. They were submerged under water to "wash away their sins". The source of water was a creek that had been used by the ancestors of members of the Holly Springs Missionary Baptist Church.

Washing Day is written to tell the true American history to children, so they understand the present racial issues faced by American Citizens. The Author is providing the truth so that future generations will be free to make social changes that make all races equal citizens.

Supper on the Ground defines one of the enduring events of the African American people in the Holly Springs Missionary Baptist Church that has lasted for over 150 years and is still ongoing. It shows how a people found strength in being with family.

Riding the Pig tells what it was like to be poor and hard working as a child growing up in Alabama back in the day. Children of today can appreciate what they have and how they live work-free today.

The Mule in the Bedroom describes the experience of a Black girl who sleeps over at the home of her Uncle and Cousin, who are so poor that they have a mule sleeping in one bedroom.

Dr. Joice Christine Bailey Lewis wrote My Ancestral Voices at the age of seventy-four. She tells stories about people and events that occurred in the Alabama community where her ancestors lived for five generations. Dr. Lewis uses autobiographies and biographies to describe events by details and dialogue that are either true, assumed, or plausible. Dr. lewis, a member of the fifth generation, tells how she drew strength from the historical accounts of survival of people through slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, racial segregation, educational inequality, sharecropping, the civil rights movement, the Second World War, Northern and Western Diaspora, and her ancestors beating great odds to succeed in landowning and community development and in the fields of medicine, law, education, and business.The Holly Springs Missionary Baptist Church was erected by the first generation of ancestors who were all freed slaves. It is still in service to the community of Romulus (Ralph) Alabama. The church stands as a monument to its members, who rose up from slavery to create a lasting legacy of hope, love, and family.

Schools Days depict the difference in the treatment of white and black students in Alabama during my youth. The sub-standard education and lack of care for the nutrition and educational provision of black students was a way of life during segregation.