Moore describes her participation in civil rights marches in Birmingham, Alabama, during the mid-1960s. Moore was a student at Carver High School and she argues that students were important activists in the campaign for school desegregation. Moore begins by describing a meeting held at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. called on the children of the community to become actively involved in the civil rights movement. In addition to describing the actions of the student activists and the challenges they faced, she describes how her parents felt about their children's role in the movement.