The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family
"Denise Nichols," Washington Post, July 23, 2008"Books of family lore -- part oral history, part anecdote with loads of juicy tidbits from diaries and journals, engaging old photographs, newspaper quotes and entries from the public record -- serve to put meat on the bones of history. In the smoothly written "The Agitator's Daughter," Sheryll Cashin...adds her firsthand experiences as a participant and witness to civil rights history to enliven the text with a close and often heartbreaking point of view."