Hope, struggle, and education at "The top of my life" -- "Moving my mountain": rural, black, Southern schooling -- "Always remember": Brown lives in black family pedagogy -- "I prayed for the children": the Biggs family and Brown -- The Erskin and Winston "life's play" in Brown's theater -- "Blemished visions": pedagogy and policy in a "New" South -- "Your child": hope from a past in a present for the future