﻿This book follows the development of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, from the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, containing the major events that Civil Rights workers participated in, such as sit-ins and Freedom Rides.
"I always felt that we were fighting for something. We were fighting for our freedom, we were fighting for justice, we were fighting for human rights, we were fighting for civil rights, and that became so important that the thought of giving up never really occurred."
"Somehow I think that this subtle racism is far worse because it just leaves you out there by yourself with nothing, no sense of what's coming next."
"I was not frightened, I was not afraid. We had been trained, we had been taught not to be afraid, not to be frightened but to sit down with a sense of pride and with a sense of dignity. We knew it was a possibility that we would be arrested and jailed."
"Underneath the smiling or compliant attitudes, there resided a simmering discontent for the inhumane treatment that would one day erupt."
"...It never occurred to me to ask why there weren't any African-Americans living on my block. So all of this was very strange to me. It was really like living in another country."