A Voice in the Wilderness
Josephine Johnson Elgin was a teacher in the mountains of West Virginia in the 1920’s. A Voice in the Wilderness contains her biographical stories, poems, essays and compositions. Several chapters are accounts of her dream of being a teacher, her preparation for the task, and then the real problems she faced and overcame in getting a school to teach, and then teaching in a community that was hostile to the public school system. There was also discrimination against women teachers. Find out how she overcame all of these to follow her dream. 236 pages.