The year is 1963, and 14-year-old Isaac wants to go to the March on Washington. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s preaching and teaching about nonviolence inspired Isaac and other African-American youth from church to become active in this dimension of the struggle for equality. Reverend Cable has confidence in Isaac's leadership, but for some reason Isaac's daddy doesn't, even though the men are longtime friends who also went together to Korea to fight in the war. Family and community tensions build, especially after a bombing of the church building causes tragic deaths in this Alabama community. Effective dialogue develops characterizations and moves the plot that tells about the church involvement of some of the courageous African-American youth in the Civil Rights Movement. (Ages 11-14)

Following the deaths of two classmates in a bomb explosion at his Alabama church, fourteen-year-old Stone organizes a children's march for civil rights in the autumn of 1963.