Just Jackie: A Teacher's Memoir by Jacqueline Carmichael Nothing can truly substitute experience, for as the saying claims, it remains to be man's best teacher. The author, driven by her personal desire and motivation to share her teaching legacy with her family of five generations and the whole humanity, gave birth to Just Jackie: A Teacher's Memoir. A release of great incentive from Jacqueline Miller Carmichael's personal archives of thirty years in the making and keeping-from being a dreamer, a learner, an educator and an author-Just Jackie invites everyone to enter this classroom and exit it with renewed skills to serve valiantly in each one's own personal and occupational calling. About the Author A retired educator and an author of the non-fiction book, Trumpeting a Fiery Sound: History and Folklore in Margaret Walker's Jubilee, Dr. Jacqueline Miller Carmichael is a believer of God and a lover of His creation. Her life of service as a teacher, both occupationally and in truth, touched innumerable lives in simple yet peculiar ways.

When twenty-seven-year-old Margaret Walker's first collection of poems, For My People, won the Yale Poets Award in 1942, she was just beginning her long and distinguished career as a poet, novelist, biographer, and teacher. When her novel Jubilee was published to great acclaim in 1966, the New York Review of Books said, "[It] chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondages." Jubilee is noteworthy for being one of the first novels to present African American history from both a black and female perspective. It is a historical and fictional account of Walker's great-grandmother's life, from slavery through Reconstruction, as told to Walker by her maternal grandmother. In Trumpeting a Fiery Sound, Jacqueline Miller Carmichael examines the novel's genesis and composition, the process of revision and publication, the work's structure and narrative strategies, its use of history and folklore, and its critical reception in the three decades since its first publication.