In 1947, Jackie Robinson, broke the race barrier in Major League Baseball, first black man ever.

The ceiling was broke forever.

The fight was strong and it was strong today and it was stronger even more so in the year of 1963.

And that's when his daughter, Sharon, was a teenager, 13 years old and she joins us here on chewing the fat today and she's

going to talk about her latest book child of the dream a memoir of her 1963 year, the year that she turned 13 and what was happening

for her and the country.

Sharon, first, thank you so much for joining us today I appreciate it well thank you Jeff

for having me on so your memoir from 1963 you know talks a lot about the struggles that the country was in that you were in

You know talks a lot about your family you know your your mom your dad your brothers growing up but teen years are you know so much

happened in your teen years I mean especially when you were 13 even before we we can go back to the beginning of

when you turn 13 but within that year I mean we had the Martin Luther King speech

which you know changed so many people, but surrounding the speech of

MLK, which is forever branded on our hearts and souls. You talk about how that changed you. Tell us a little

bit about that day. Yeah, well the reason why I wanted to write this book was really

to talk about the

the chance to bring the Children's Crusade of 1963 to another

generation of kids. Because it inspired me uh... it was a changing point for

the civil rights movement and it was children who lifted their voices and

took the risk and you know faced a

had a violence had a violence against you know with fire hoses and dogs and

going off to being carted off to jail but they stood firm and lifted their

voices and because of that that was a big factor in getting the attention of

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