About Let Us March On
I’m just a college-educated Southerner with a passion for books. My husband says I’m too bold, too sharp, too unrelenting. Others say I helped spearhead the Civil Rights movement of our time. President Roosevelt says I’m too spunky and spirited for my own good.
Who am I?
I am Elizabeth “Lizzie” McDuffie.
And this is my story…
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About Shara
SHARA MOON is a first-generation Haitian American writer and amateur historian who enjoys exploring black world history then writing about it. Her novel LET US MARCH ON, published by William Morrow/Harper Collins, is her historical fiction debut..
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Screen tested for the role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind
Coming Soon!
A post-WWI story about a grieving mother fighting against the atrocities of Jim Crow to honor her fallen son, and a young widow struggling to cope with the loss of her husband while raising their son without him. In this dual-POV novel, two mothers are forced to relive their pain when faced with an unprecedented opportunity that threatens to tear them apart.