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Dorothy J Kimble NOW AVAILABLE AT LIBRARIES! |
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A Mighty Long Way Dorothy Jackson-Kimble Excerpts from A Mighty Long Way “On Sunday, December
7, 1941, I went to the Echo Show with some of my friends. I had just had
my thirteenth birthday. When I got home from the show, Momma was in the
kitchen making fried apple pies for my stepfather’s lunches. Momma was
listening to the Jack Benny Show on the radio. The broadcast was
interrupted for a special announcement. The Japanese had bombed Pearl
Harbor. It was a chilling moment . I was in the living room when I heard
Momma quietly say, “We’ll have to go to war.” She didn’t say anymore,
but I knew she was upset. Her two sons would have to go”. “I remember the
first day of the riot. It was on July 23, 1967. I leisurely awoke to a
bright, hot Sunday morning around seven. Sam and the girls were still
asleep. As I got out of bed and opened the blinds, I was unpleasantly
surprised to see vast clouds of eerie, black smoke billowing in the sky
at a distance towards the west. I tugged on Sam’s arm to wake him up
“Get up,” I hollered, “I don’t know where it’s at – but there’s
something on fire!” Sam jumped up and looked out the window. He said,
“Something’s on fire all right! Looks like it’s up there around Twelfth
Street and Clairmount.” He quickly put on some clothes and went to find
out from the neighbors what had happened. In a few minutes, he came back
excited and said” “Dot, don’t get all upset – I think they’re rioting
like they did in ’43! Just stay in the house until I find out something
else about what’s going on.” |
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