Month: October 2011

Rose Blue, Corinne J. Naden, and Don Tate, Ron’s Big Mission

Rose Blue, Corinne J. Naden, and Don Tate, Ron’s Big Mission

A biographical story of prejudice in Lake City, South Carolina in 1959 and how it bit the dust! The Story Rolling out of bed, dressing as fast as he can, young Ron McNair has no time for breakfast, a free donut, or basketball. For Ron is on a mission. Determined to check books out of the library. The problem is. Ron’s black. Only white people can check books out of the library. The Characters Ron is fascinated by planes and flying and after spending so much time at the library reading books there and not being able to check them out, Ron fully intends to reverse that. All the white people Ron encountered both on his way to the library and at the library were really nice people. They wanted to help Ron get his books. As long as he didn’t make waves or try to check them out on his own. What’s with that? Why is it that, today, we can see how stupid this is? Why couldn’t we see it then? What will we see as stupid 10 years from now? My Take Prejudice is so stupid. I just loved that Ron was so excited about going to […]

Posted October 26, 2011 by Kathy Davie in / 0 Comments