Title: 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
Time periods: 1920s-2012