It Wasn't Little Rock is a narrative that explores the life of Mozelle, a passive American Southern black woman, who feeds her children one by one into the country’s 1950s school racial integration “experiment” and their later reflections on that situation. The book was created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision which ruled that “separate but equal” schools were unconstitutional. The title, It Wasn't Little Rock, comes from the response given by black students, when describing their experiences at the newly integrated schools.