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African American teenagers African American women Communities Race relations Segregation Violence Civil rights movements Georgia, 1962. Rose Perkins Bourdon returns home to Parsons, GA, without her husband and pregnant with another man's baby. After tragedy strikes her husband in the war overseas, a numb Rose is left with pieces of who she used to be and is forced to figure out what she is going to do with the rest of her life. Her sister introduces her to members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee-- young people are taking risks and fighting battles Rose has only seen on television. Feeling emotions for the first time in what feels like forever, Rose finds herself becoming increasingly involved in the resistance efforts. Isaac Weinberg's passion for activism stirs something in her she didn't think she would ever feel again. -- adapted from jacket Legislators Man-woman relationships Nineteen thirties Political activists Restaurateurs Self-realization in women Social conditions