DLWBooks is a print-on-demand bookstore developed out of Briartown Publishing.  Currently, all books on this site are written by Deborah Lowe Wright in connection with the Pickaway County African American Heritage Association (PCAAHA). (pcaaha.com)

 

The love of history began at the age of 9. However, researching and writing history started at age 45. It began by answering a personal question about African Americans in Circleville, Ohio. There was no information readily available that told the story of black life in Circleville. This motivated a search for information about Circleville's African American community. 

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The effort was well worth the task after finding that two petitions signed by 147 black men in Circleville, Pickaway County, were sent to and read in both houses of the United States Congress in 1870. These men, denied the right to exercise their newly acquired right to register and vote, asked both Houses of Congress to pass a law to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment. Their voice, through these petitions was heard and entered as evidence for passage of the Enforcement Act of 1870.  My first book, THEY LEFT THEIR MARK, presents back story of events leading up to April 4, 1870, election.  The writing also contains records of the Congressional debates over enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court's dismantling of the Enforcement Act. The book concludes with hope that the struggle for real equality is carried on by the coming generations.

 

While still researching and writing about the lives of these Circleville men, Ms. Wright's interest moved to the telling the organizational history of the Ohio District Council of Pentecostal Churches of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Inc. The information is divided into three volumes which focus on history, growth and grace respectfully.

 

Deborah Lowe Wright believes that self-worth, sound character and accepted identity cannot be accomplished without knowledge and understanding of history.  The people, places and events of the generations before help to understand who you are today.  Ms. Wright believes, in previous generation, there are things that go undone. Each task, having a purpose, needs to be completed. Every generation that does not finish the task, misses receiving a just reward and burdens the next generation with the charge to complete it. Ms. Wright's motivation for researching and sharing history, anyway she can, is to shine a light on the past to illuminate the present to see the future fulfilled.

 

Books, in various stages of writing, are about Circleville families: Dades, Daltons, Dickersons. A book about the African American religious community in Circleville is planned. Research and outlines are done for books with topics on faith, words we speak and women of color. it is hoped something will interest you to purchase one or all DLWbooks.