Child of the Civil Rights Movement

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.