Contents
Foreword
1. My Moment as a Fly
2. First Grade Executives
3. A Minister Who Learned the Wrong Lesson
4. Saved by the West Ninth Street Taxi
5. Finding Dad Before He Drank Up the Paycheck
6. “Stretch it Out”
7. Three Dollars, an Eel, and Bright Kids
8. The All-White Electricians’ Union
9. “The Little Rock Seventeen”
Photographs
10. Daisy Bates and Thurgood Marshall
11. A System for Rating Insults
12. The Penknife and the Switchblade
13. The Emotional Price of Non-Violence
14. Lessons from the Barbershop and Lawn-Mowing Clients
15. Unexpected Move to Los Angeles
16. Those Who Would Re-Write History
17. Consulting for the Little Rock School District
18. Much to Learn
19. Not a Linear Journey
Afterword
The Little Rock Nine Foundation
Philander Smith College Remarks
The Ongoing Battle for Equality
Nine Who Dared
About the Author