Charlene Hampton Holloway, RN, native Louisvillian of Kentucky. Charlene
has been a registered nurse for over 35 years. However, her dream of writing about her family's struggles to seek education has been on her mind for 13 years. Charlene was an Executive Manager of the VNA-Behavioral Home health program which under her direction in 1994 grew into the largest of its kind in the entire USA.

Charlene is the youngest African-American still living in the state of Kentucky who marched right beside the late Dr. Martin Luther King, JR in 1961. She was only 13 years of age. Charlene wrote the truth--no Louisville Police Officer harmed or mistreated her in anyway during the Civil Rights Marches in 1961-- who was arrested repeatedly.

Charlene's now deceased 91 year old mother was a retired Jefferson County School Teacher who recently played for the Eastern Stars and Masons here in Louisville, KY on Palm Sunday, March 2008.

Charlene's maternal grandfather, Charles D. Whitlock, was the first African-American to open a florist business in the entire state of Kentucky, here in Louisville in 1922. He and his wife, Parthenia used nickels, pennies and dimes to pay for Thelma's education @ Indiana University. Thelma made history when she was the first African-American from Kentucky to graduate from Indiana University's Jacob School of Music in 1939--during the Great Depression and before World War II. Charlene's great-great grandfather was a noted physician from Hopkinsville, KY. He owned and impregnated Charlene's great-great grandmother, Cornelia Wallis, his slave, who gave birth to Charles D. Whitlock's father, John Whitlock, named for his own father, Dr. John C. Whitlock.

Charlene has had multiple book signings and speaking engagements up and down the East Coast of the country. She encourages EVERYONE TO READ.