Building a Bridge to the Twenty-First Century Where Black Will Still Be Black

The irony of this book is to show that fifty years after the 1963 civil rights movement, blacks are still experiencing the same types of problems they experienced in 1963. She talks about how as a college administrator she experienced some of the same types of situations she experienced thirty years earlier when she worked in the motion picture industry at Warner Brothers Studios. In her book, she talks about the Jim Crow laws and the Stand Your Ground laws. She also talks about President Obama's challenges in becoming the first black president of the United States and his reelection. Her primary point is that there has not been enough change in the area of racial equality in the last fifty years.

Much has been written about the south and segregation. Geraldine Smith grew up in the south in the sixties during the height of the civil rights movement. In her book, she gives a firsthand account of what it was like growing up in an era where there were "white" and "colored" signs displayed in full view. Geraldine has a dual bachelor's degree in English and communications and a master's degree in education and is presently working on a doctorate degree in human services with an emphasis in nonprofit organizations.