Sometimes It Was Beautiful

Description:

SOMETIMES IT WAS BEAUTIFUL is a very different kind of book in the annals of work published in the American and African-African tradition. It is a true to life story told by PT Armstrong, a man whose incredible life began as the son of an impoverished sharecropper in Texas but who survived those slave-like beginnings to experience the kind of adventures that only a handful of people are still alive to talk about. Despite such life-threatening adversities as severe poverty and Jim Crow racism—when we worked as a “muleskinner”-- Armstrong tended to be “lucky in love.”

subjects: memoir,  African-American History,  American History,  Muleskinners,  levees,  erotica,  railroad builders,  20th Century,  Coming of Age,  African-American men,  Texas,  African-Americans in Texas,  History of Texas,  Savannah-Georgia,  race relations,  neo-slavery,  PT Armstrong

Places: Texas,  United States,  Germany,  Korea

Times: 1920s-2012