Beginning of Brown Girl Dreaming

The first part of Brown Girl Dreaming summarizes the first few years of the Jacqueline Woodson's life. Jacqueline was born in 1963 in Ohio. Her dad wanted to name her Jack after himself but her mom refused and had her named Jacqueline. After a short period of time, Jacqueline along with her mother and sister leave her father. They move back to their mother's parents house in South Carolina.
Over the next few years, Hope, Odella, and Jacqueline were shielded from their surroundings. They were told to stay away from any children in the neighborhood. As marches go on across the country for equality, Jacqueline's mother, grandma, and grandpa support the peaceful marches and condemn violence on both sides. Soon Jacqueline's mother heads to New York to get a job and tries to find housing for them. Jacqueline's Grandma starts teaching the children to be Jehovah's Witnesses to keep them on track. She also lets them come in contact with other children around them. They end up learning more about the children in the neighborhood and it teaches them how to interact with others. Their mother returns with a new baby and comes to take them back to New York.
The book so far is just a summary of Jackie's early life. She is too young to remember a lot so a decent amount of what happens is very vague. The book is set during and after the movement for racial equality so it has a lot of potential to show how the population of the United States was reacting to segregation. Overall, there's not much to comment on so far in the book since nothing important has happened yet.