This story takes you into the mind of a child experiencing desegregation of the public school system. The images used within the book are actual photos Toni Morrison collected. In the back of the book there are pages devoted to photo notes that tells the city and year the photo was taken along with a narrative description of what was occurring in the photo. Segregation of white and black people is a hard concept for children to understand in 2011, and these photos do an unexplainable job of illustrating the hatred shown toward black people. Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved, making her the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in LIterature. She is currently a professor of Humanities at Princeton University. Her book does exactly what it was named for, remind new generations of an era when not everyone was treated equal.
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