She describes finding her own name on a Ku Klux Klan wanted list, seeing a boy beaten as FBI agents watch from across the street, and hearing of murders - Emmet Till, Medgar Evars, John F. Kennedy, as well as her own uncle. She lives her life knowing she can no longer return safely to her hometown and feels estranged from family members who do not share her passionate commitment to fight racism.

At the conclusion of the book we are left with Anne, as well as many other activists for equal rights, who have left on a bus to go to Washington D.C. to testify at the COFO hearings. Their mission was to finally gain equal rights once and for all after all of the battling they had d

I don't know if it would have been possible for Anne to come to a different conclusion. All through her life she noticed and learned that for some reason blacks weren't trusted and just didn't get the full benefits of life. The attitude was always negative. Perhaps if there was some kind of positive attitude towards blacks from whites her conclusion might have been different. However, if there were any positive attitude there probably wouldn't have been a fight for equal rights at all.

During Anne's childhood she had several after school jobs. These jobs that she took were always for white women and for very low pay. For her first job she received seventy-five cents and two gallons of milk a week.

During Anne's childhood she learned that there was a difference between those with black skin and those with white. She was never able to get an answer. When she would ask her mother about it she would become angry with Anne. She even thought the secret was in their "privates" and examined that aspect and found nothing that would clue her in. She thought maybe it was their straight hair or light skin that made them different. She still never understood the reason why the colors of skin made people different.

During her mid-teen years Anne began to hate people. She hated whites because they were responsible for the continuous killings of blacks. However, she also hated Negroes because they would not stand up for themselves or take action against the murders and fires. She was also catching on that there were many reasons that blacks were not liked. She found that many young black girls weren't to be trusted especially with black men. When Anne was helping Wayne with his math homework she could tell that Mrs. Burke wasn't very comfortable with the relationship that was building between them.

one over many years. However, on the bus Anne didn't seem as energized about the idea as the others who continually sang uplifting Negro songs. The images of all that had happened during her years as an activist were running through her mind. She wasn't sure how to answer to those who were asking her if things were actually going to get straightened out in Washington D.C. She only left us with the thought, "I wonder. I really wonder."

All of the events in Anne's life brought her to the conclusion she did. When she was on the bus going to Washington D.C., I don't think she really had any idea what to expect. She didn't have any idea wh

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