Child of the Civil Rights Movement

I didn't really enjoy this one. Just because a story is an important thing to tell, doesn't mean any book on it is completed well. This is about a little, four-year-old girl, during the time of the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. There is a lot of history here and good topics to introduce and discuss. We read this as an inter-library loan book.

Paula Young Sheldon relates the stories of her childhood with her extended family, the people who worked together to establish civil rights in the segregated United States of the 1960s, people who included Andrew Young, Jean Childs Young, Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy, Randolph Blackwell, Dorothy Cotton, James Orange, and Hosea Williams. The story begins with stories of visiting restaurants with her family and being refused entrance, continues with marching together peacefully, and culminates with the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The author concludes by reminding all of us that the baton has now been passed to the next generations.