When Barack Obama became president, Gertrude Wilks was overjoyed
and filled with hope. She knew it was time to tell her story
because it would inspire people to become active. "Now is the time
for community people to get poor folks involved in helping
themselves," she said.Gertrude Wilks grew up in a sharecropping
family in Louisiana. She learned to be a community organizer from
her strong Mother and Father. When Gertrude, her husband and their
baby moved to California they found it not so golden either. When
she discovered that black children in the community were not being
educated by public schools she started a school for them. Its motto
was "Our Children Can Learn" and they did.
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