"You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. -President Barack Obama On a cool February evening in 2012, in a small city in Florida, a fatal bullet was fired into 17-year-old, Trayvon Martin's chest. Within minutes, he took his last breath. It took two days before his parents were informed of the worst thing they could've imagined-their beloved child had died at the hands of a stranger. Martin's death began in the most anonymous circumstances imaginable. He was a black teenaged boy in the American south, violently killed well before his time, a tragedy, but a common one in America. What made this story different was the will of his parents to find justice for their son-and to make his life mean something. Through Sybrina and Tracy's efforts, the events of that dark night transformed into a movement that has changed the country. I Am Trayvon Martin is a parents' story, and at its heart, an act of redemption for the lost life of their son. Through them, we see Trayvon as the child he was-a sometimes troubled but loveable kid being raised by an improvised family that fiercely protected him. They tell the story of the devastation from his death, the trial that freed their son's killer, and how they launched a transformational national movement from the most anonymous crime imaginable. I Am Trayvon Martin gives a human face to a national and historic issue. In this intimate social justice story, Sybrina and Tracy show the extraordinary strength, dignity, grace, and faith it takes to turn pain into purpose, chaos into community, and their son's legacy into a cultural shift."
