i will, first, introduce kathy farnell who is, grew up in montgomery, alabama. actually, cloverdale, near montgomery. and her wonderful book is "duck and cover: a nuclear family," and it's about that area in the 1950s and 1960s which was an time.and 1960s which was an both of her parents were lawyers. she has a degree inre law. she practiced law until she says she got bored with it. so now she has a media project which is a nonprofit and does collaboration. in 1998 she did one with the smithsonian institution on remembering slavery. our next author, yvette johnson, has a very interesting book, centers on greenwood, mississippi, entitled "the song of silence." the subtitle tellings us a lot, "a story about family, race and what was revealed in a small ton inhe the mississippi delta -- small town in the mississippi delta." it centers on her grandfather, booker wright, a man who knew how to survive and, in some sense, flourish in a caste system and in a system of ray is schism. racism. identified ased a racism. she was a producer in 2012 of an award-winning film, "

i'm kathy farnell, i'm from montgomery, alabama, my book is about nine years that i spent in cleverdalechool starting in 1958. i don't know how well you can see this, but the cover, we have a photograph of the bomb blowing up and a photograph of school children hiding under desks from the hydrogen bomb. now, i would like to know, when you were a kids how many of your families had a fallout shelter? anybody? because in 1958 fallout shelters were big business. in montgomery the shopping center had a sidewalk sale of fallout shelters. it was like a boat show only different. my mother and i were looking at the fallout shelters and some of them looked pretty interesting because they were quite expensive so i asked my mother, are we going to get a fallout shelter and she said, no, we are going to die, it's cheaper. [laughter] >> i tell people that for me the 1950's were mclike the adams family than leave it to beaver. ducking cover is about what happens when a social order is in the process of changing. during this time period in addition to cold war, montgomery was at the center of the civil