The Timing Couldn't Be Better...

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A dear friend just gave me this book as a birthday gift, and I can't wait to read it while I'm commuting back and forth to work. And yes, I still enjoy holding an actual book in my hands!

Mrs. Lucimarian Tolliver Roberts may be best known as the mother of Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts, but the 88 year old woman has achieved great success in her own right.

Lucimarian Tolliver was born in 1924 in Akron, OH. As a teenager she was awarded the John S. Knight Scholarship, given by the publishers of the Akron Beacon Journal. The first person in her family to go to college, Tolliver graduated in 1946 from Howard University, where she met her future husband, Lawrence Roberts. The couple had four children and moved 27 times as part of Mr. Roberts' career as an Air Force officer.

Mrs. Roberts' achievements include serving as director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, New Orleans Branch; chair of the Mississippi Department of Education; and as a board member for the Boys and Girls Club of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She also served on the Presbyterian Church (USA) National Committee on the Self-Development of People and was co-chair of the national steering committee for the mission initiative: Joining Hearts and Hands.

In 2011 Mrs. Roberts received the Medgar W. Evers Lifetime Achievement Award from the Gulfport branch of the NAACP. Mrs. Roberts collaborated with daughter Robin Roberts and author Missy Buchanan to pen My Story, My Song: Mother-Daughter Reflections on Life and Faith. The book brings together pivotal moments of Lucimarian Roberts' intriguing life with personal reflections from Robin Roberts.