Assignment:
One of Mildred Taylor's stated intentions for this novel was that it would
Teach child readers about the activism of African American children during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s
Teach child readers about the activism of African American children growing up in the 1930s and how that activism helped to bring about the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s
Teach child readers about the example that adult African American activists set for children growing up in the 1930s