The Life and Journey of Truckstop Shirley

By Reverend Dr. Romando James

Truckstop Shirley will tell the story of the first black woman in South Carolina to manage a truck stop on a major interstate, highway I-85 in South Carolina. Shirley, a six five, 355-pound woman with size 15 shoes, began her journey picking cotton as the daughter of a tenant farmer. Shirley picked and carried over three hundred pounds of cotton per day, on the farm located in Fair Play, South Carolina. The landowners sold the land in which her family tenant farmed to purchase a truck stop, in which Shirley worked as a waitress, cook, and eventually a manager for almost forty years. This story is a story of courage, perseverance, and survival in the life of Shirley Estrich.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 27, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503542426

Reverend Dr. Romando James

Rev. Dr. Romando James, PhD, professor emeritus at Clemson University, is the founder of Operation Common Sense with PRIDE Ministries, which operates on the paradigm Your Roots Control Your Fruits. Operation PRIDE was created with a mission and vision to lead and encourage youth, adults, and inmates into personal and growing relationships with Common Sense with PRIDE by encouraging them to maximize and pursue the following acronyms: P—Purpose R—Respect I—Integrity D—Determination and Discipline E—Enthusiasm These five roots are aimed to create a continuous cycle of achievement for future harmony. Dr. James’s vision is to reproduce his paradigm of PRIDE in order that this element will promote peace in an atmosphere and time of war, racial and religious inequality, and political differences.

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THE LIFE AND JOURNEY OF

TRUCKSTOP

SHIRLEY

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Inspired and Based on a True Story

Driven by P.R.I.D.E. Research

For those who would learn the pathway to a successful journey

P.R.I.D.E Must be the first thing

P.R.I.D.E Must be the second thing

P.R.I.D.E Must be the third thing

-Rev. Dr. Romando James, Ph.D.

Copyright © 2015 by Rev. Dr. Romando James. 661460

ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-5035-4243-3

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Contents

History of Anderson, SC

Introduction to P.R.I.D.E

Shirley Shares Her Story

Shirley’s Role in developing Cherokee Run Truckstop on Highway 1-85

A Model For P.r.i.d.e

P.r.i.d.e Relationship To Kwanzaa

Chapter 1:

Purpose

Chapter 2:

Respect

Chapter 3:

Integrity

Chapter 4:

Determination & Discipline

Chapter 5:

Enthusiasm

Other Men And Women Showing P.r.i.d.e

Claude Brown

The Psychology And Challenges Of

P.r.i.d.e. For Your Journey

Dedication

About The Author

Scripture quotations marked TLB are taken from The Living Bible copyright © 1971. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

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Rev. Dr. Romando James Ph.D.

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For

Kyle and Keenan

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My two sons who passed much too early

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Operation

Common Sense

With

P. R. I. D. E. Ministries

Publication

What’s the use of saying that you have faith and are Christians if you aren’t proving it by helping others? Will that kind of faith save anyone?

James 2:14-The Living Bible

History of Anderson, SC

Anderson, South Carolina (SC) is located in the part of Anderson County, which sits in the Northwest corner of the state, on the banks of Lake Hartwell, which is a part of the Savannah River System that separates South Carolina and Georgia. Anderson was once the home and inhabited land of the Cherokee Indians. It wasn’t until 1777 that the land, then called the Pendleton District, was given over to the Revolutionary War heroes Andrew Pickens and General Robert Anderson, by the negotiations of a treaty. The Pendleton district