Eve Bunting focuses on the funeral procession of Dr. King, beginning with the two men who found the cart to carry him through the streets of Atlanta. After painting it green, two mules named Belle and Ada are hitched to the cart where Dr. King's coffin is placed. Tens of thousands of mourners gather as the cart makes its way to Ebenezer Baptist Church, and then past the Georgia state capitol to Morehouse College. All the while, crowds of people pay...

When a sick boy dies, his friends and classmates remember him by building a schoolyard pond in his memory.

A little Chinese-American girl pays tribute to her grandfather as she assists in the preparations for his funeral.