"One of the 'Little Rock Nine'." First paperback printing May 2013.
Contents:
My moment as a fly -- First grade executives -- A minister who learned the wrong lesson -- Saved by the west ninth street taxi -- Finding dad before he drank up the paycheck -- "Stretch it out" -- Three dollars, an eel, and bright kids -- The all-white electricians' union -- The Little Rock Seventeen" -- Photographs -- Daisy Bates and Thurgood Marshall -- A system for rating insults -- The penknife and the switchblade -- The emotional price of non-violence -- Lessons from the barbershop and lawn-mowing clients -- Unexpected move to Los Angeles -- Those who would re-write history -- Consulting for the Little Rock School District -- Much to learn -- Not a linear journey.
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