Crimson Waterfall tells a series of gripping true stories about individuals who accomplished extraordinary things or made the best of life in spite of hard times and misfortune. There are stories about:. a white man who fell in love with and married a mulatto woman four years after the Civil War;. how the mulatto son of a white man became a plantation owner and sent many of his 21 children to college;. a white father who tried to leave his mulatto son an inheritance and the almost-six-year court battle that ensued;. a university dean/president who was at the center of first sit-ins at Greensboro, North Carolina;. a man who started high school at 21 and became a renowned research scientist; and. a black teacher who was the first to integrate an all-white public schoolin a small Southern town.
The six related families referred to on the cover are the Scarboroughs, Clarks, Westons, Wrights, Shivers, and Scotts.
This book goes beyond family history and includes unusual historical facts that will be of educational value to the general public.
From the numerous historical facts cited, the reader will learn why the state of Georgia's readmission to the Union after the Civil War was revoked and later reinstated, why the state of West Virginia was created during the Civil War, the history of "Black Indians," the extent of Southern white opposition to the Confederacy, the great flu outbreak of 1918, and the "Orangeburg (SC) Massacre" of 1968.
The author reaches out to the reader by his commentaries, original adages, and poetry such as:. Love is its own blessing, its own justification, its own destiny.. We learn more by understanding than by finding fault.. We achieve our best when we help others.. Family history brings together the scattered pieces of our identity.
In the many true stories related in this chronicle, we may see something of ourselves.