{"product_id":"the-journey-paperback-16","title":"The Journey - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I was born a Negro on March 28, 1931, to a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who was two generations away from slavery and had a fourth-grade education. A midwife delivered me, helped by my grandmother and aunts, and I took my first breaths in a three-room sharecropper's shack on a hardscrabble farm located miles down a dusty dirt road in Falls County, Texas, twenty-five miles south of Waco.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins John Dearman's unlikely and lucky journey from poverty in segregated and hostile central Texas to law school in Michigan and a prestigious judgeship in San Francisco. With unassuming prose and humility, the author gives not just his own experience, but the context of the time through his knowledge of the law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis family rooted him, both in his younger years and his later ones, giving him the foundation to succeed. Don't miss this remarkable journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67967073353951,"sku":"9798989119936","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0pj2oH51L89798989119936.webp?v=1791730372","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-journey-paperback-16","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}