Product Description

Sandi Brewster-walker has written a book about her early life in North Amityville, Long Island during the 1940s and 50s, when her family was considered colored. The new book gives us insight into the lives of a family with Long Island Native American roots. Despite the fact that the Natives did not know the land customs and laws of the Dutch and English, nor could they read or write either language, their marks, the "x" traded away forever their magnificent island. Brewster-walker is a descendant of many of the Natives that traded away Long Island. She, also talks about why many of the Southern blacks came to Long Island during the Great Migration of domestics. The book is a series of remembrances, while a young child in North Amityville. The Colored Girl from Long Island ends at the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, when colored people became Negroes. Her story is told in her own words!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2356789 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 179 pages

About the Author
Sandi Brewster-walker is a historian, genealogist, freelance writer, and business owner born in Copiague, NY. She relocated from Connecticut to Northern Virginia at the beginning of President William Jefferson Clinton's Administration. Sandi joined the Clinton Administration in 1993, and was appointed Deputy Director of the Office of Communications at the United States Department of Agriculture. However, she later served as director of the Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Program. Towards the end of President Clinton's second term, she moved to historical Williamsburg, Virginia, and a few years later to Florida. Brewster-walker has taught American History in the secondary education public school system, as well as served an (Acting) Assistant Director for the Urban Center for Black Studies at Vassar College. Sandi has researched African and Native American genealogy for more than 40-years. Thirty years was spent on researching her great-great grandfather Willis A. Hodges of Princess Anne County, Virginia. Hodges represented Princess Anne County during the Reconstruction Period after the Civil War. She has developed the Invisible People Series, which includes Fairfield County (Connecticut), Lower Norfolk County / Virginia Beach (Virginia), and Suffolk County (New York). Sandi has taught genealogy classes throughout the United States. For three years, she taught black genealogy at the Lloyd House in Alexandria, Virginia for the Fairfax Public School System. She has lectured in New York State, Connecticut, Florida, and Virginia, as well as the University of Connecticut Campus in Stamford, Connecticut. Brewster-walker is an African American that is highly educated, and a veteran of corporate America. She has been published in a number of national newspapers and magazines, as well as been the subject of feature articles in the Washington Post, Connecticut Post, Stamford Advocate, and Essence Magazine.