Children of the Dream

From the award-winning author of the Children of Conflict series comes a powerful collection of thirty-eight men and women sharing their experiences on what it was like growing up as a person of color in a time of racial injustice. I was brought up with white Barbie dolls of impossible proportions and long silky blonde hair—neither of which I possessed. As a child I believed what I was taught, and I wasn't taught to love myself for who I am—an African American. Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamed o