White Trash Warm Hearts: A Steel Magnolia's Journey From Tears to Triumph

This is an amazingly meaningful account of a childhood spent in utter poverty in the American South - post World War II. It was “root hog or die” for Judy and her mother, brother and two sisters after their father just up and left them in the night. When Momma was injured at the mill they spent a couple of years in an orphanage where there was a heinous double murder. Momma worked her fingers to the bone to get her children back in her arms. Was Judy destined to repeat her mother’s hardships? Not this Steel Magnolia! She boldly marched up to a rich cotton mill owner and asked for a loan to go to college and blasted off. Judy James raised millions of dollars for Florida’s disadvantaged children. With several appointments by Florida Governors, she has been called the Oprah Winfrey of her county. She has been an inspiration to her own five children who adore her "hands on her hips" southern fire and a fierce passion for serving humanity. A published writer and winner of The Florida University Women’s Best Short Story Award, Judy writes her own account of her triumphant life.