wouldn’t listen.”
Sarah looked at her daughter again.
“Emily, please tell me what happened.”
Her daughter took a deep breath.
“It was during the lesson about Rosa Parks,” she began. “Mr. Reynolds showed us pictures and talked about how people protested against unfair laws. Then he said that sometimes people exaggerate what happened in history to make certain people look like heroes.”
Mr. Reynolds sighed.
“I was encouraging critical thinking.”
Emily continued.
“Then I told him that my grandmother used to talk about the civil rights movement. She told me that when she was young, she saw people being treated unfairly just because of the color of their skin. She told me that standing up for what is right isn’t always easy.”
Sarah felt her stomach tighten.
Her mother, Emily’s grandmother, had passed away two years earlier. She had been a gentle woman who rarely spoke about her childhood, but
