About me
I have experienced many things in life...right family and friends? I am blessed to have found my passion and purpose. However, no experience in life is more insightful than the writing of my first book. Each day I write, I'm challenged to explain the denouement of my experiences in a way my future readers can grasp and comprehend.
I tell my family and friends-daily...this is the hardest thing I have ever done in my entire life. If it hasn't taught me anything, it has attributed to my character-convincingly. I strongly believe our stories of triumph and defeat is necessary to build our African-American communities.
Not everything you create will be a masterpiece, but you get out there and you TRY and sometimes it really happens. The other times youre just stretching your soul.
Dr. Maya Angelou
It is one of the tragedies of life that one cannot have all the wisdom one is ever to possess in the beginning. Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would be written at all. It might be better to ask yourself Why afterward than before. Anyway, the force from somewhere in space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.
Zora Neale Hustron from Dust Tracks on the Road
In literature, fiction is prized for many reasons. Pauline E. Hopkins, a leading writer of the early twentieth century, explained its role in her 1900 work, Contending Voices: Fiction is of great value to any people as a preserver of manners and customs -religious, political, and social. It is a record of growth and development from generation to generation. No one will do this for us; we must ourselves. From Contending Voices
After it's all been said and done...I now feel privileged to have experienced life in such a way, that I have been coined as a heroine and a pioneer. However, it is my deepest pleasure to write this book in honor of our Ancestors who fought the battle way... before me. It is such a driving force and I will not rest until my book is placed on a shelf aside the greatest achievers in life.
The achievers who wouldn't stop or lay their sword-pen down; but, solely focused on their belief. When Im finished and my story is told--the civil violators and the judiciary injustice that is practiced in this Country will need a face lift. I'm not trying to save the world, but change it ONE person at a time.
I want to thank each of you for taking the time (not to sound GRAND) to become a friend of mine. I seek no formal notice by this- it is my honor to have your support as a friend. It allows me to know everything that I have suffered for and through was worth it. If there is anything I can do to repay this little grain of kindness that takes shape of a mustard seed; feel free to let me know.
SYNOPSIS
The Preamble to the Constitution grants certain basic rights to anyone living in America. Among them is justice, domestic tranquility, liberty to pursue our posterity. "A Soldier for Justice"; is the true story of courage, outrage and determination.
Tonita's story puts a human face on the political and judiciary system and shows how these principles are being violated. The abstract concepts of "Racism and Injustice"; are made concrete through the struggles of one person for equality. Tonita's story shows the double standard in the application of the Constitution in this country and how this country violates citizen's rights to life and liberty without any consequences.
This story is a [true] account of a Mother's brave struggle to save her children and community from being over-run by racist politics and policies. Her story dramatically illustrates the difference one person can make. She names politicians, county workers, police officers, judges of state and federal courts and holds them accountable for their actions.
You will discover what Tonita has known for a long time - that mayors, lawyers', judges and the police are often motivated by ignorance and self-interest. Tonita's experience will act as a road map to aid you in your own struggle. Of all the political or social books about the good one person can do, few are more timely or resonant than "A Soldier for Justice": A True Story. Professor's assessment; A Soldier for Justice"
It was a delight to work with you this quarter. Our course is a rather rigorous excursion into American law and legal tradition. Your case briefs and your questions were always imaginative and perceptive. In fact, I looked forward to your online submissions because they helped me prepare for my classroom sessions. Please keep me posted on your most interesting career as it develops.
Political Science Professor Tennyson
Ms. Tonita Hall is a highly self-motivated and organizized student who demonstrated a mastery of United States history since 1865 when we Worked together on the subject this past summer She enrolled in a correspondence Course, which required students individually to compose ten essays of three to five pages, a term paper of eight to Sixteen pages, in addition to a midterm and final exam.
She performed perfectly on all of these assignments. Furthermore in complete the Course, Ms. Hall accomplished the unusual---most students who embark on correspondence courses do not finish; in fact, the completion~ rates are only around twenty percent Of even greater testimony to her fortitude and ability to persevere, Ms. Hall enrolled in a quarterly correspondence course that required she finish the assigned work in One quarter, rather than the normal two quarters~ and in doing so during summer she was only allotted eight weeks rather than the regular twelve, due to the abbreviated length of the summer session On a related note, due to the low success rates in quarterly correspondence courses, the School has discontinued offering these classes.
Ms. Hall Was thoughtful, creative, and greatly original in the ways she conceived of and wrote about the US past. Though I did not directly observe her in a classroom setting, her proven ability to produce a not insignificant amount of complex and Sophisticated work, Without the privilege of feedback from other Students in a course, indicates to me that she is an advanced thinker written communicator and disciple of history. I cannot speak to any weakness of this candidate, the only lack I am able to perceive is my own, in not having the opportunity to work with her further. Therefore, it is without reservation or hesitation that I strongly recommend Ms. Hall to Georgetown University.
History Professor Weston
One often sees students who are unaware of their own potential. It is the teacher's role, I think, to get students to see and believe in this potential. As a teacher of writing, I am often surprised by how talented students are, yet they have no intention of pursuing a future as an English major or writer and are only taking a Composition class to fulfill a prerequisite requirement. Every now and then, though, one is lucky enough to witness a student in the midst of tapping into their own potential and realizing the limitlessness of their creative powers.
Tonita Louise Redditt Hall is one of those individuals. The only thing that separates someone who achieves success in a given field from the rest is ambition and the pursuit of one's ambition. Ambition is often characterized by some vague concept of what one might achieve in the future, and then sometimes it is characterized by the fact that an individual has realized that they have a certain talent and know that it will take some amount of effort and work that to achieve whatever ends it might offer.
In our dialogues about writing, which eventually spilled over into Tonita's interests in literature, political activism, law, and the world, it was obvious that she is on the verge of realizing the extent of her own potential, so if I am to attest to her character, I would have to say that the potential of Tonita's creative ambition is only as limitless as she is able to imagine.
If I were to attempt to characterize her as a person, I would have to say that her enthusiasm and imagination are limitless and possessed of a focused ambition. To be able to witness someone on the verge of taking themselves seriously as a writer and thinker is exciting; to see that individual pursue their art after realizing it does not come easy to all who attempt it is inspiring. Tonita is at this point in her evolution.
The work she did in my composition class was sophisticated and creative, but the best example of Tonita's innovative and creative spirit, as well as her ambition, is the fact that concurrent to the class she continued to work on the book project she'd been writing for several years. There aren't many students who pursue such big projects while tending to their school work at the same time. She will be a great source of positive energy and inspiration to her fellow students and teachers; please give her the opportunity to pursue her goal of a Master's in Foreign Studies, followed by law school.
Her confident choice of these rigorous areas of study is further evidence of her ambition and drive. Tonita possesses the artistic character to be a lifetime creator and instigator of thought and ideas, and it is for this reason that I recommend Tonita Louise Redditt Hall without reservation.
English Professor Bachar
