BOOK AWARD WINNER: FROM HILL TOWN TO STRIEBY: EDUCATION AND THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION IN THE UWHARRIE “BACK COUNTRY” OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
Nonfiction Book Award Status: Gold Author Name: Margo Lee Williams Synopsis When former slave, Islay Walden returned to Southwestern Randolph County, North Carolina in 1879, after graduating from the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, as an ordained minister and missionary of the American Missionary Association, he moved in with his sister and her family in a secluded area […]