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. but the question for me was how to relate those events to young people who may have anything from no information at all to some vague memory of some adult trying to describe the civil rights to them. and, of course, it may have been very much like telling about the civil war. they may feel that distant. so, the question was how to make those days alive for them in a manner that was direct, not preachy, not pat ronnizing and not burdensome as text. while photographs were chosen that documented and dramatized the precursors to the decision, the decision and the little one's aftermath, but even the most powerful images could become merely another lesson or another collection, if they were presented with captions that were limited to the date, time, who, when and where. what really attracted me to the project was the possibility of e