All excerpt from Pretty Women Hustle Magazine
Felicia Alford is on a personal mission to spread encouragement and inspiration on how to find strength and overcome adversity during challenging times, with her book, “Through The Fire”.
Author Felicia Alford is an award-winning author and mother of two beautiful children. She is also a proud native of the South Side of Chicago. Felicia has cultivated a successful career, spanning over twenty years of elevated leadership and brand management, with an accomplished tenure as a corporate sales executive in the beauty industry. She is known by her colleagues as someone who is dedicated and takes on each task with tenacity and a strong commitment. Felicia applied that same determination in fulfilling her goal of writing a personal true story that she hopes the readers find compelling and enjoy!
Alford’s book, “Through The Fire” highlights the early morning of February 21st, 1964, where a tragedy occurred on Chicago’s West Side that forever changed the lives of a renowned Chicago detective and his family. Their unforeseen catastrophe sent a shock wave through the city and brought unity during a time when racial discrimination was still at a peak.
The book discusses the detailed accounts of stories shared by Mr. Spencer Leak Sr., owner of Leak and Sons Funeral Home, former Chicago Police Superintendent James O’Grady and others are heartfelt, as they relive the huge impact that one of Chicago’s biggest disasters had on the city.
