Small Moments: A Child's Memories of the Civil Rights Movement - Softcover

"The significant family moments, beautifully described by the author, reveal a child's growing understanding of injustice as she experiences racism, sexism, and classism in her daily life. . . . Perhaps the best example I've read that the personal is political, 'Small Moments' is heartbreaking and true." -- Judy Logan, author, "Teaching Stories" "cover copy"

Jim Crow. Segregation. Separate but equal. At the dawn of the Civil Rights movement, these words mean little to Mary, an eleven-year-old Southern transplant in New Jersey. Forced to grow up in an place so unlike her old home, Mary clings onto one thing she knows and loves: Amelia, her family's African American housemaid. At once a stern caretaker and a tender mother-figure, Amelia's constant presence in Mary's life gradually exposes Mary to the rippling tide of unrest and inequality spreading through the nation, as well as the violent and heartbreaking ramifications of the Tuskegee experiment. Based on a true story, Small Moments is a gripping and heartfelt tale of how one uneducated and underprivileged woman taught a young girl to see the world not in terms of color, but in terms of kindness, equality, and love.