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Ya ya sisterhood book series order5/20/2023 ![]() Some students spoke only French and some spoke only English. Some of the children were barefoot, already up for hours doing chores but who would still make sure to get to the schoolhouse early, in the darkness of a damp winter, to haul the coal and light the heater. Rita Leleux, with the highest grades in her class, was selected to become one of the first one-room school teachers in the Louisiana swamps in 1917. She was only 18 years old.Īccording to the news story, Rita Leleux woke up and set off on a pirogue, a wooden boat, through the bayou to her schoolchildren Monday through Friday, rain, sleet, or snakes. She stands proud despite being in the background of her brother.Īnd there’s a newspaper clipping. She was my great-grandmother with the same valiant spirit as ya-ya leader Vivi Abbott Walker in Divine Secrets. But then my maw maw tells me about a woman I’d never met named Rita Leleux. ![]() A couple of weeks later, I get an envelope in the mail with a stack of photos and records of a young girl. ![]()
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