The fight for racial equality is an ongoing battle. Seventh grade readers learn a condensed and sanitized version of slavery, the emancipation, and the civil rights movement. Many students, especially Black children, learn the full truth outside of the classroom. In literature like Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson, where she writes from a child’s perspective of the influence s of slavery and racism. Woodson incorporates aspects of the civil rights movement that a child can relate to and understand. In Woodson’s poem “Greenville, South Carolina, 1963” (30-31), she discusses the more subtle effects of the civil rights movement. She speaks of the unconscious fears that Black people had looming in their mind. In this poem Jackie is an infant