african american college students

James "JD" Dawson struggles to make the right choices during the second semester of his freshman year at the University of Atlanta, but when his academic future depends on a class assignment to help Kat get elected student-body president, JD will have to determine who he can trust.

Examines the lives of the African-Americans activists who worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s--Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, John Lewis, Marion Barry, Bob Zellner, and Diane Nash--and discusses the impact their actions had on the civil rights movement, politics, and twentieth-century society.