Based on the description given in the book, the following are noted:
The book titled "Proud Shoes:An African American Family helped in showcasing the social dynamics as well as the racial discrimination between the mixed family race from the South and its union to a free black family.
Her grandparents were Sarah Burton and Charles Thomas Fitzgerald. There got married in 1834 and had six children.
Her grandmother was born into slavery while her grandfather was a soldier during the Civil war.
The story illustrated slavery, and survival before the Civil war to the period of Reconstruction.
