Young Ashley Honeycutt

About the Book

Young Ashley Honeycutt, the son of a black American, grows up in the Old South. He sees no mixing of the races. He has no equal rights. In 1942, in search of equality, he joins the army. In May of 1943, he goes overseas. He serves in Africa, Sicily, and Sardinia. He arrives in Marseilles, France, in 1944. From there he goes to Vesoul. He spends time in an army hospital. He finds equality there. She is an army lieutenant, a white American nurse. They mix. He knows there is no place in her future for him.

About the Author

Andrew Stuckey, born of a black American, during hard racist times, grows up in the Old south. Prematurely street-wise, he quits school at fourteen, and goes to work. In 1942, in search of equality, he joins the army. He goes overseas. His mind opens to different cultures. He scorns no color of skin. In France he meets his spouse to be. She is white, French born. At war’s end, Andrew, in France, is a friend among friends. Having mixed in crowds of strangers, he, in Ashley’s Destiny, builds a case for his belief: people of different cultures can be friends.