Introduction to the Book

The Secret-Keepers’ Stories chronicles one family’s journey out of generational poverty during the tumultuous twentieth century. It is told through the actual lives and experiences of eleven characters and based on fifty family oral histories and tales that they passed on. Each chapter is a portrait of the standard-bearers, problem-solvers, trendsetters, and game-changers who moved American progress and prosperity forward, and of the love and memories they left behind.