Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, ages 11, 9, & 7, are sent across the country to Oakland to spend a month with the mother, Cecile, who abandoned them when Fern was a baby. They don't want to go and once there, it's obvious their mother doesn't want them there either. It's the summer of 1968 and the girls are sent to a Black Panther run "day camp" where they are taught to be "black, not colored", about Huey Newton and Bobby Hutton, make posters for an upcoming rally, and are sent to ask local merchants to display them. While this happens Delphine takes charge of her two sisters as well as cooking for them and their mother, since Cecile only seems to eat Chinese take-out. In the short time the girls are there they grow up a lot and develop a mutual respect and maybe even a kind of love with the mother who left them so many years ago.
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