One Thirty-Six Pryor Street

Norma Thomas Draper's riveting and heartfelt story... Norma Thomas was a young girl growing up in Atlanta during the Great Depression. This beautiful and heartfelt story chronicles her life into adulthood. She shares the joys and heartache, as well as the blessings and successes of her life. She shares insight to what it was like growing up during the Great Depression and talks openly about her time working in the Fulton County Georgia Voter Registration Office during the Civil Rights Movement. Norma was inspired to write this story about her life at the request of her youngest son Billy. He asked her to write a story about everything that happened in her life that she could remember. Well indeed it took great remembrance, as well as many years of research and interviewing of family and friends to pull the pages of this book into an unforgettable eloquent story of her life that she shares openly.

Author: Terrie Annette Burdett, Norma Thomas Draper
Publisher: Tab Professional
Published: 01/03/2014
Pages: 374
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780615573687

About the Author
Norma Thomas Draper is a woman of love and faith. She cherishes her family and is very proud of the time she served in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia. It took her years and lots of research to write everything she could remember, eloquently and candidly, sharing her story with an open heart. Since the completion of her autobiography, her life, her story, has continued to live on with joy and great happiness. Today Norma is 94 years old and resides on the outskirts of Atlanta at Lake Allatoona in White, Georgia. Two of her three sons, Lawrence and William, are still living in Georgia today with their wives, as well as her 4 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren, and 2 great great grandchildren, whom all reside in Georgia. Her beloved son Don Richard and her beloved husband Raymond Draper have since passed away. Although Norma is 94 years old, she is still very interested in politics and world events. Reading the Newspaper every day and staying current on Time Magazine is a daily ritual for her. She remains quite active with her family, friends and church, and still loves to host holiday celebrations at her home for her family. Norma is quite an extraordinary woman. She has lived a long blessed life, reflecting to so many an example of "courage, dignity and survival" in a time when things were not so easy for a woman. She remains a true inspiration to so many of the loved ones in her life.

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