Looking for Jazz: A Memoir about the Black College and Southern Town That Changed My Life

The book's title, Looking for Jazz, refers to the author's naive assumption that her favorite kind of music will be readily availble at a black college in the south. The book tells the story of Anna, a young white midwestern woman who takes a job teaching at a black college in a small Georgia town in 1968. Her husband is beginning his advanced Army training at Fort Benning. The Vietnam War, voter registration of blacks, forced public school integration, and students' beginning to vote where...