Imagine...
It is the year 3000. Efforts to protect the environment have failed. The trees are gone, and there has been no paper for 100 years. History has been passed from one generation to the next through the oral tradition (people talking to other people), the way parents taught their children before there was the written word. A very old African-American woman, Carolyn, is lying on her death bed. Carolyn’s granddaughter, Elizabeth, is at her bedside. Carolyn feels compelled to tell about the experiences of African-Americans more than 1000 years ago during the Civil Rights Movement. This information was given to Carolyn by her grandmother many years before. Now, Elizabeth is about to hear the story for the first time before her grandmother dies. Continue
