A Place to Stand book report

By jatchie

  • Birth

    Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in New Mexico.
  • Period: to

    Lived with Grandparents and Orphanages

    The time in which he lived in his grandparents house and then was sent to an orphanage along with his older brother.

  • Korean War Ends

  • First Time Set Foot in Prison

    Visited Father in Prison

  • Alaska and Hawaii Become States

  • Taken to St. Anthony's Boy's Home

    When his gradfather passed, Jimmy and his brother were moved to a boy's home

  • Abandoned by his Parents

  • President Kennedy Assassinated

  • Lived in His First Detention Center

    After running away from the orphanage about a dozen times, when he ran away again he was sent to a detention center for boys.

  • Ran away from the detention center.

  • MLK was assassinated

  • Wrongly accused of murder

  • First Moon Landing

  • Changed Plea from Innocent to Guilty

  • Period: to

    Time Spent in Maximum Security Prison

  • Got in his first fight in prison

  • Corrispondance With Mr. Harry

  • Vietnam War Ends

  • Visit with his brother

  • Published First Poems

  • Obtained a GED

  • Moved to Blacksburg Virginia

  • Met the Woman he would marry.

  • First Son Antonio was born

  • Persian Gulf War

  • US establishes full diplomatic communication with Veitnam

  • Attack on the Twin Towers

  • Still Living Today