Fredrick Douglas Richardson, Jr was one of twelve children, born to his parents, Fred and Helen Richardson. He was raised on a tiny farm in Nymph, Alabama. He attended segregated school until he graduated 12th grade. At age 18 he moved to Mobile, AL where at 19, he married his teenage sweetheart and they lived in abject poverty, which motivated them set higher goals for themselves . He and his wife Ruby graduated from the University of South Alabama, and kept moving forward. He is a political scientist, historian and is learned in theology.
The author fought segregation by leading the successful struggle to be free, in Mobile, AL. He is a retired manager of the US Postal Service, Deacon at Stone Street Baptist Church, a member of the Mobile City Council for 25 years, traveled the world over seeking trade and recruiting businesses. While abroad he saw and talked with people around the world, who like him, sought only a better life. He found no one claiming a particular race.
He loves all people. He has published seven previous books. In latter years he has focused on helping America to join every other nation of the world, by eliminating race, to classify its citizens; since all are Homo Sapients. This author saw his mother, who was class valedictorian, reduced to a hired housekeeper, because of her race classification.
He is happy to report that all his life’s long efforts to stop, divert and divest America from its affixation with assigning its people to a particular race, has not altogether been in vain. He has living proof. His city, Mobile, AL banned race from its forms documents, and replaced the word race with ethnicity. While there is much work still to do, there is also hope for America. The intent for this book is to help educate and thereby usher in new hope of truly one nation, one people, where our functions are valued, and our skin color merely reflects past ancestors homeland. This fight, he will not relinquish.
About the Author
Fredrick Douglas Richardson, Jr was one of twelve children, born to his parents, Fred and Helen Richardson. He was raised on a tiny farm in Nymph, Alabama. He attended segregated school until he graduated 12th grade. At age 18 he moved to Mobile, AL where at 19, he married his teenage sweetheart and they lived in abject poverty, which motivated them set higher goals for themselves . He and his wife Ruby graduated from the University of South Alabama, and kept moving forward. He is a political scientist, historian and is learned in theology.
The author fought segregation by leading the successful struggle to be free, in Mobile, AL. He is a retired manager of the US Postal Service, Deacon at Stone Street Baptist Church, a member of the Mobile City Council for 25 years, traveled the world over seeking trade and recruiting businesses. While abroad he saw and talked with people around the world, who like him, sought only a better life. He found no one claiming a particular race.
He loves all people. He has published seven previous books. In latter years he has focused on helping America to join every other nation of the world, by eliminating race, to classify its citizens; since all are Homo Sapients. This author saw his mother, who was class valedictorian, reduced to a hired housekeeper, because of her race classification.
He is happy to report that all his life’s long efforts to stop, divert and divest America from its affixation with assigning its people to a particular race, has not altogether been in vain. He has living proof. His city, Mobile, AL banned race from its forms documents, and replaced the word race with ethnicity. While there is much work still to do, there is also hope for America. The intent for this book is to help educate and thereby usher in new hope of truly one nation, one people, where our functions are valued, and our skin color merely reflects past ancestors homeland. This fight, he will not relinquish.