Sometimes It Was Beautiful

By PT Armstrong

Subjects: memoir, race relations, railroad builders, PT Armstrong, Muleskinners, African-American men, Savannah-Georgia, levees, African-Americans in Texas, 20th Century, neo-slavery, Coming of Age, American History, African-American History, History of Texas, erotica, Texas

Description: SOMETIMES IT WAS BEAUTIFUL is a very different kind of book in the annals of work published in the American and African-African tradition. It is a true to life story told by PT Armstrong, a man whose incredible life began as the son of an impoverished sharecropper in Texas but who survived those slave-like beginnings to experience the kind of adventures that only a handful of people are still alive to talk about. Despite such life-threatening adversities as severe poverty and Jim Crow racism—when we worked as a “muleskinner”-- Armstrong tended to be “lucky in love.”