Afrotina, admonished by her parents to remember that pretty is as pretty does, behaves badly when she stumbles into the home of the three bears, and is in danger of becoming a Sunday dinner until she remembers to mind her manners.
Chronicles the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama, the leaders of the movement, and how the children helped in the fight to end segregation in the South.
Recounts the courageous involvement of many young people who marched, protested, were arrested, and risked their lives to end racial discrimination in the South during the 1950s and 1960s.