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"Cassie recounts harrowing events during late 1941. An engrossing picture of fine young people endeavoring to find the right way in a world that persistently wrongs them." --Kirkus...

For nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, the Sanitation Strike of 1968 hit close to home. Lorraine marched with her daddy and other sanitation workers through the streets of Memphis fighting for equal rights and safer working conditions. With her mother, she boycotted stores. Lorraine’s life was forever changed when she heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preach his famous sermon “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” to the tired and frustrated strikers. Dr. King was tragically killed the next day, and hope seemed shattered.

World Ready Radio examines how early inspiration and real-life learning experiences about entrepreneurship, work readiness and financial literacy actively shape one’s education, career and life journey. Listeners hear firsthand conversations about how childhood experiences, talents, role models, dreams and experiential learning opportunities come together to help make an individual world ready. In addition, the guests may have a few challenging questions of their own for our hosts.