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Sonny Harper
Sonny Harper was Southern born and never fully adjusted to her family's migration from Tennessee to Michigan after WWII. She was among the first American kids to take part in schoo...view moreSonny Harper was Southern born and never fully adjusted to her family's migration from Tennessee to Michigan after WWII. She was among the first American kids to take part in school integration in 1949. Her feelings of alienation in her new environment created a fundamental mistrust of what she was taught in school and developed a passion to learn things not found in books.
In her obsession to explore the world for herself, Ms. Harper became actively involved in most of the social movements of the 1960's and 70's earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in secondary education along the way. She taught in public Junior High Schools for four years, a private finishing school for twelve years, and continues to work in a program for at-risk children that she created and initially administered through Los Angeles Unified Schools.
Travel was inevitable due to Sonny's inquisitive suspicious nature. A marriage and divorce from a professional basketball player provided her with the opportunity to experience every region in America and Western Europe. She has also been simultaneously involved in the business arena for over forty years, beginning with her first job as a clerk in the cleaners from her old neighborhood, to selling luxury cars, managing the most prominent interior design firm in Santa Barbara, CA, and becoming the first female Editor in Chief of the newsletter for her chapter of Rotary International.view less