Adaptado del galardonado y exitoso Stamped: El racismo, el antirracismo y tú, este libro lleva a sus lectores en un viaje ida y vuelta del presente al pasado. Los niños descubrirán de dónde surgieron las ideas sobre racismo, identificarán cómo afectan a Estados Unidos hoy en día y conocerán a quienes han combatido el racismo con antirracismo. A lo largo del camino aprenderán a identificar y erradicar de su vida los pensamientos racistas.

"Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary. Spanning datelines in the American South, South Africa and points scattered in between, her work constitutes a history of our time as rendered by the pen of a singular and indispensable black woman journalist....

Looks at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped the South after the Civil War.

As an elderly woman, Lillian recalls that her great-great-grandparents were sold as slaves in front of a courthouse where only rich white men were allowed to vote, then the long fight that led to her right--and determination--to cast her ballot since the Voting Rights Act gave every American the right to vote.