As a college freshman and realizing that I know very little about the history of my own country, this is a great book for me to read. It's a memoir about Maria Gitin, who at the same age as I am now, joined the Civil Rights movement with no encouragement from her family and barely any money. The details are researched exactly, and I feel like I'm there alongside her as she travels to the South and describes what she personally faced as a white woman, as well as the struggles and courage of the black people in Wilcox County and the South in general. Really an incredible book and I would recommend it to anyone even slightly interested in the Civil Rights movement.

A great, gripping, and well-told story full of true history and local characters, recommended for anyone interested in the history of Alabama or specifically of Wilcox Co, prominent local families, stories from Camden, Gee's Bend, and other Wilcox communities, and more broadly, the Civil Rights Movement, race relations in the US, voting issues.