Books by Tilda Kemplen

Hailed in her native Campbell County, Tennessee, as ""the Mother Teresa of the coal country"", Tilda Kemplen was a teacher, activist, and founder and executive director of Mountain Communities Child Care and Development Centers (MCCCDC). Kemplen movingly describes her struggles to educate herself, her years as a teacher in rural schools and mining camps, and the establishment of MCCCDC.