Growing up Colored, Negro, Black in the Gap

By: Arthur Saxton

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Growing up Colored, Negro and Black is a semi-autobiographical novel of heartwarming personal memories and experiences of the author as he grew up in a small coal mining town in Southwest Virginia. It depicts a time when the community was the parent of all children. The author paints a picture in the reader’s mind of the incidents from his past that he describes, and at the same time brings the reader into them emotionally. One can feel the closeness, love and bond that existed among those in the community from which he came. The readers from small towns will relate to the experiences and those from larger cities will marvel at them.