Table of Contents
Foreword 9
1 My Moment as a Fly 13
2 First Grade Executives 21
3 A Minister Who Learned the Wrong Lesson 36
4 Saved by the West Ninth Street Taxi 42
5 Finding Dad Before He Drank Up the Paycheck 47
6 "Stretch it Out" 61
7 Three Dollars, an Eel, and Bright Kids 65
8 The All-White Electricians' Union 78
9 "The Little Rock Seventeen" 83
Photographs 93
10 Daisy Bates and Thurgood Marshall 103
11 A System for Rating Insults 108
12 The Penknife and the Switchblade 117
13 The Emotional Price of Non-Violence 125
14 Lessons from the Barbershop and Lawn-Mowing Clients 130
15 Unexpected Move to Los Angeles 136
16 Those Who Would Re-Write History 142
17 Consulting for the Little Rock School District 146
18 Much to Learn 153
19 Not a Linear Journey 156
Afterword 161
The Little Rock Nine Foundation 166
Appendix 167
Philander Smith College Remarks 167
The Ongoing Battle for Equality 172
Nine Who Dared 176
About the Author 188
