Title: Remember: The Journey to School Inegration 
Author: Toni Morrison
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004
non-fiction
This nonfiction book contains many sepia toned images of Blacks and Whites, children and adults. The most certain fact is contained in the image of the New York Times front page dated 17 May 1954, the date the US Supreme Court ended school segregation “with all deliberate speed.” From this starting point, Morrison tells us, no she shows us what it was like for people of this country to desegregate its schools. I found it amazing how Toni Morrison, such a gift story teller, was able to let the images tell the story. The images chosen for this book make the struggles of this era human and personal. Morrison depicts those Blacks and Whites who lived through this era as determined, fearful, united, hopeful and strong. While the book does not contain a lot of facts about this era, it does what most history books do not: it brings life to the past.


