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Sunny Nash is author of Bigmama Didn’t Shop At Woolworth’s about life with her part-Comanche grandmother during the Civil Rights Movement.
The book is based on Nash’s syndicated columns of a combined 16 years with Hearst Newspaper, The Houston Chronicle, and former Knight-Ridder Newspaper, The Eagle, in which she chronicled her Candy Hill childhood in Bryan, Texas, within eyeshot of the defunct Allen Academy Boys Military Prep School, currently a Federal Prison Camp (for women). The Historic Nash Home was demolished after Nash moved out of state many years ago.
The book is based on Nash’s syndicated columns of a combined 16 years with Hearst Newspaper, The Houston Chronicle, and former Knight-Ridder Newspaper, The Eagle, in which she chronicled her Candy Hill childhood in Bryan, Texas, within eyeshot of the defunct Allen Academy Boys Military Prep School, currently a Federal Prison Camp (for women). The Historic Nash Home was demolished after Nash moved out of state many years ago.
Bigmama Didn't Shop At Woolworth's was selected by the Association of University Presses as a Book for Understanding U.S. Race Relations and also recommended by Miami-Dade Public Library System for Native American Collections.
Bigmama Didn't Shop At Woolworth's
Robin Fruble of Southern California said, “Every white person in America should read this book (Bigmama Didn’t Shop At Woolworth’s)! Sunny Nash writes the story of her childhood without preaching or ranting but she made me realize for the first time just how much skin color changes how one experiences the world. But, if your skin color is brown, it matters a great deal to a great number of people. I needed to learn that. Sunny Nash is a great teacher,” Fruble said.
Robin Fruble of Southern California said, “Every white person in America should read this book (Bigmama Didn’t Shop At Woolworth’s)! Sunny Nash writes the story of her childhood without preaching or ranting but she made me realize for the first time just how much skin color changes how one experiences the world. But, if your skin color is brown, it matters a great deal to a great number of people. I needed to learn that. Sunny Nash is a great teacher,” Fruble said.
Read Comanches and Colored GirlsSunny Nash's book features stories about life with Bigmama, during the Civil Rights Movement in the Jim Crow Bryan, Texas, not the only Jim Crow area in the U.S. and certainly not the worst, and most certainly not restricted to ethnicity. Jim Crow ignored no one without means and some with means.
Nash compiled the book using a selection of articles from her nationally syndicated column. She emphasized her family's struggle with the effects Jim Crow had on their lives, while at the same time, giving Nash a life as close as possible to that of a little princess with books to fuel her imagination, summer and holiday travel away from Jim Crow country to give her a glimpse beyond the limits set by Candy Hill and Jim Crow.
Nash said, "My family did not waste compliments on me. They reserved accolades to celebrate real accomplishments, not just because I dragged myself out of bed before noon on Saturday or because I made an 'A' on my report card. And they were right," she said.
Sunny Nash, award winning author-journalist, leads and publishes a variety of projects--business, renewable energy, technology, Intellectual Property, history and a range of societal and critical human interest research areas--many of which she creates. A life-long global student herself, Sunny Nash is also a passionate instructor in an evolving world of electronics and renewable systems knowledge.
Sunny Nash graduated from Texas A&M University, College Station TX, Journalism, and earned graduate credentials at the London School of Journalism; University of California, San Diego; Harvard; Stanford; University of London; European Centre of Technology, London; London School of International Business; Cambridge Management & Leadership School; United Nations; and numerous project-related International Certifications.
Sunny Nash graduated from Texas A&M University, College Station TX, Journalism, and earned graduate credentials at the London School of Journalism; University of California, San Diego; Harvard; Stanford; University of London; European Centre of Technology, London; London School of International Business; Cambridge Management & Leadership School; United Nations; and numerous project-related International Certifications.
