Dorothy Hampton Marcus is a Civil Rights Activist, truly ahead of her time. She jumped into Race Relations before it had a name, (in the fifties), and was one of very few Whites to do so.   

 A Winston-Salem, North Carolina native, she grew up in the Jim Crow Era, not fully knowing what that really meant. In her undergrad years at Meredith College in Raleigh she had her first one-on-one inter-racial experience which this progressive all-womens  school arranged. This event changed her life and by the time she graduated, she’d found a new passion. Determined to enlighten others with she had begun to know, she found answers in the most unexpected places witnessing history along the way. For the next two decades she worked in a succession of “Human Relations” jobs throughout the U.S. putting off marriage and motherhood to do so. Even after marrying “late” at age 40, she never gave up on improving civil rights for all people. She was determined to share what she now knew well past her retirement when she started writing this story. She dedicated herself to finishing the book right up until the onset of dementia made it impossible for her to write another sentence.

It was at that point that her daughter Kaypri realized it was up to her to pick up the baton which started by completing the first draft of her book for her mother's 80th birthday in 2012. It took nearly two years more years to flesh it out and publish it, adding her Daughter’s Notes along the way. It became available to the public in April 2014.