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=__Toni Morrison__=

Toni Morrison is an 80 year old successful woman. She is also known as Chloe Anthony Wofford(her birth name). When she got older, she shortened her middle name, Anthony, to Toni and everyone has called her that since. Toni Morrison eximplified perserverence by overcoming her family's financial problems, work difficulties at a young age, and racism.

At a young age, Toni's family couldn't pay the rent. Her father's shipyard welding job didn't even cover the cost,which was four dollars a month. So, their landlord put an eviction notice on the door, but her mother tore it off. At the age of thirteen, Toni got a job cleaning a white family's house to help ay the bills. But, It harldy helped.

Her job at the white family's house was very difficult for her. So, she complained to her father that the woman was mean and the work was too hard. Her father reminded her that she didn't live there and she should just go do her job,get the money, and come home. So, thats what she did, went through the hard work to hardly help pay the rent.

Toni Morrison lived a life through racism.Toni's father had bad experiences with white people.Her father was once getting criticized by a white man and he started a huge fight, he started throwing things at him and going crazy. And this was all in front of his children. African americans were still banned from some places in town. Toni didn't become fully aware of racial divisions until she was in her teens. She said, "When I was in first grade,nobody thought I was inferior. I was the only black in the class and the only child who could read." Toni overcame racism and became the first black woman to receive a literacy award.

Toni has written at least 5 books and has been successful. She has succeeded with Random House, first as an editor,then an author. Toni has long overcame her family's financial problems, harsh work, and racism.



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Humphry, S. M. (2005). //Dare to dream! 25 exrtaordinary lives//. New York: Prometheus books.