Eighteen-year-old African-American Alena's sheltered life on her parent's Mississippi farm has not prepared her for the truth about racism, but a shocking discovery leads her to leave her home in 1919 and travel to Chicago in search of answers and justice.
Presents the story of a woman, half Cherokee and half African-American, and her family, their years of slavery, forced removal to the Indian territory of Oklahoma, and her determination to overcome her circumstances.
