Looking Back

About the Book

Although the book, LOOKING BACK, begins with a short genealogy of the family roots, it is an autobiography of the author’s life struggle while growing up on a farm in the South during segregation and the Jim Crow Laws of the 1950’s and 60’s. The book takes the reader on a journey of over sixty years from a one-room schoolhouse to a postgraduate degree, from primitive conditions to modern living, and from financial limitation to affluent and good fortune.

About the Author

Clarice Goodley-Campbell was born on a farm in Oberlin, a small south-central Louisiana town in 1944, at the end of World War II. Although she started school in a one-room schoolhouse, her parents, who were church-going Christians, worked extremely hard to assure that their ten children get the education needed to climb the ladder of success. In 1962, Clarice graduated from Carver High School in Kinder, Louisiana and attended Delille Junior College at the Motherhouse Campus of the Sisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1971, she graduated from Xavier University in the city of New Orleans where she taught at three different Catholic schools before moving to Houston, Texas. It was at Texas Southern University where she received a master in mid-management and a doctorate in Counseling Education. She retired in 2011 after more than forty years in the field of education as teacher, counselor, and administrator. She has been married almost forty years to her husband, Al, and they have one daughter, Cheryl.