case it suffers an unkindly demise in itscausits p yet, incomplete -- before that, we should couldnntemplate and re that period as a powerful morae moral achievement. and none so significantly important as the brown versus board of education. there's certainly many celebrations and memorials and books and essays and op-ed pieces all in place to mark and analyze the events of 1954. the culmination of years of work on the ground, in the streets and in the houses and in the churches and in the courts, the culmination being that supreme court decision. but as we pay tribute to those extraordinary times and the court's -- supreme court's decision that signaled a real turning point in social policy and law, it still is easy to forget one segment of the population whose future was the center of the cause. and i'm referring to the children. not just the ones who walked into the schools in the '50s, but also the ones whowalk in the schools now, 50 years later. when i was approached to do a book for children about brown versus board of education, that's what i thought of, those two sets of children. b