Brown Girl Dreaming

Woodson, Jacqueline. (2014). Brown Girl Dreaming. New York: Penguin.

This book is a series of free verse poems that tell about an author that shares part of her complicated life and what it was like when she was growing up at a time when the world was changing.  This takes place during the 1960’s and 70’s in South Carolina and New York.  It was when the young girl starts becoming aware of the civil rights movement.   She talks about how hard it was to understand why it was wrong to try to change the world or fight for what they bellieved in.  She questioned herself on why the cops would try to put someone in jail for believing in what was right.  But believing in that there is good in each of us with nonviolence and power to the people, is a girl who always believed in a perfect now.  

This is a book that can help to see the many difficulties that black people endured during the time of a growing awareness of the civil rights movement.