Growing up in Memphis -- On to Scotlandville -- Protest comes to Scotlandville -- Klieg lights and microphones -- How to kill a protest -- Encounters of the NSA kind -- NSA summer camp transformations -- Singing in the tear gas -- Arrested development -- An offensive Christmas -- Eye to eye with the enemy -- Expulsion, dismissal -- Turning the page -- A siege mentality -- The journey home -- Radical is as radical does -- The L-word -- Provocateur -- The original X man -- Brother Rat -- DARE -- Encounters of the first kind -- DARE in action -- The March on Washington -- A bona fide Negro.
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"A strong, uncompromising voice that dreams of a better America, Judge Bailey has experienced the ugliness of both racism and fear. Yet he has not stepped back. What a wonderful life to share."--Nikki Giovanni, from her ForewordWhen four black college students refused to leave the whites-only lunch counter of a Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's on February 1, 1960, they set off a wave of similar protests among black college students across the South.