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This is the third book in this series. I didn’t like it quite as much as the first two books, which received the highest marks a book can get in my rating. But it helped me see how racism continued to thrive and the many forms it took clear into the late 1800’s, many years after slavery had ended. The lives of the characters and their children and grandchildren is explored in this book, with issues regarding the women’s suffrage movement in Oakland, California, the black laws that kept interracial couples from legally marrying, the abuses blacks received from the whites, keeping them in lower-paying jobs (Even when they were college-educated), and the never-ending fear blacks feel about their family members when they are out in the world, always wondering if they might not come back because of racism. The book ends on a melancholy note—not a unrealistic happily ever after that still hasn’t happened for many colored people. This book series was highly enlightening though, and I am grateful to be more aware after reading it.