Contents

Foreword

Preface

1 - Growing Up in L.A. (Lower Alabama)

2 - Biscuit Man

3 - Race Relations

4 - The Huntingdon Five

5 - Under the Influence

6 - Freedom Riders in Montgomery

7 - The Highs of Highlander

8 - My September 11th Farewell

9 - Briefcase and Broom

10 - Murder and Mayhem in McComb

11 - Working On the Chain Gang

12 - Criminal Anarchy in Baton Rouge

13 - Organizing in Talladega

14 - George Wallace and Me

15 - John Brown: Live Like Him

16 - “This Is Not a Social Call”

17 - How Gladly They Stood

18 - Seeing Stars

19 - Seed Pod Explosion

20 - Train Wreck

21 - Goodbye and GROW

22 - Fundi: Passing It On

23 - Up South

Epilogue and Acknowledgments

Photographs

Index

About the Author