If you've seen or read "The Help," you'll want to read this. In their own words, youngsters of the 50s and 60s describe their lives before the Civil Rights Movement, from death threats in the South to neighborhood segregation in the North. After the Movement, they went on to long careers in corporations, government, and the professions. Now retired to the Atlanta area, these lively veterans of that era tell what it was like-the good, the bad, and the hilarious-and write for the futures of all of us.

This Lou Walker Senior Center Writers Anthology No. 2 highlights experiences of 22 seniors over the time in history when civil rights marches were changing lives for African-Americans and others, women's rights were finally getting recognized, and we put a man on the moon. The influence of the United States extended dramatically in the post-World War II era, and our seniors were there, in Guam during a typhoon, in Germany during tensions around the early 1970s Arab oil embargo, or on St. Thomas, U.S.V.I., where things were never the same after a submarine base went in. We invite you to dip...