What was it like growing up in the Deep South when Jim Crow laws were everywhere?
How did it feel to sit down to dinner with grown-ups who planned protests between bites of Mamaâs creamy macaroni and cheese?And imagine walking right beside Uncle Martin and Aunt Coretta in that historic
march from Selma to Montgomeryâuntil your legs were so tired that you had to ride on your fatherâs back.
Paula Young Shelton, a daughter of civil rights leader Andrew Young, takes readers on a vivid trip back to Paulaâs childhood in an extraordinary familyâthe family of the American civil rights movement.