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Analysis Of The Day Before Christmas By Hattie E. Brown

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In 1949, December 24, the day before Christmas, Hattie E. Brown, an African American, was born. Being born and growing up in Covington, Georgia, Newton county, where her mother, father and nine of her siblings also lived she was the fourth out of ten. Despite the year she was born in and the census of her family, Hattie became a mother and grandmother, living though the events that happened. Growing up Hattie’s mother and father was present throughout their lives. Her mother was housekeeper for whites, cleaning and cooking, before then it had been passed down from her grandmother to her mother then to one of Hattie’s sisters. Her mother also ran a laundry mat, on Washington Street, not far from where they lived. While working for those jobs, she also worked for a white family, Budd and Elizabeth Dennison, which Hattie Elizabeth Brown was named after. While working for them her mother would say, “they didn’t have a racist bone in their body,” they would give them school supplies, food, material and many other things to help them. Her father, one of the many few African Americans that owned his own business as a mechanic, working on any and everything someone brought to him. He specialized in cars where he barely charged much to fix cars because he knew that they did not have the money most would charge to fix a car. He also would charge credit or exchange of food, by that he was known as the 5 dollar man, where he charged nothing over five dollars. Because of all ten

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