Ron's Big Mission

Nine-year-old Ron loves going to the Lake City Public Library to look through all the books on airplanes and flight. Today Ron is ready to take out books by <i>himself</i>. But in the segregated world of South Carolina in the 1950s Ron's obtaining his own library card is not just a small rite of passage&#151;it is a young man's first courageous mission. Here is an inspiring story based on Ron McNair's life of how a little boy future scientist and <i>Challenger</i> astronaut desegregated his library through peaceful resistance.