Edith reaches out for her daddy's hand as a napping newborn baby in the front cover photo.

While clutching his daughter's fingers with one hand and taking the photo with the other, David Martin Stone Senior realizes he must teach her survival skills and the significance of family under segregation. What it means to be racially oppressed in the United States both as a Black and a girl, will reluctantly and painfully be learned by Edith but also how to deal with both nightmares with determination and unsacrificed joy...