Fear and What Follows: The Violent Education of a Christian Racist, A Memoir

Fear and What Follows is a riveting, unflinching account of the author's spiral into racist violence during the latter years of desegregation in 1960s and 1970s Baton Rouge. About the memoir, author and editor Michael Griffith writes, “This might be a controversial book, in the best way—controversial because it speaks to real and intractable problems and speaks to them with rare bluntness.”

The narrative of Parrish's descent into fear and irrational behavior begins with bigotry and apocalyp...