This is the story of how a few courageous black and white men led their community through a racial mine field in the turbulent and dangerous 1960’s. This is the inner story of why Anniston, Alabama was not a Birmingham, Selma, or Albany. It could have been. At the time, Mayor Claude Deer siad said, "I know Anniston. If the racial situation can be solved in Anniston, it can be solved anywhere in America."

In this story is seen raw courage, danger stared down, the interplay of love and hate, and a tenacity to make dreams of freedom, justice and fairness come true. This story is a look below the surface of the racial scene in Southern America, to the careful inter-workings that produced enough trust and understanding to enable a community to navigate through the troubled waters of violence. To those who said, "It can't be done" a brave few said, "It can be done", and then proved it. There are many touches of humor and irony.

The story gives generations who did not experience the revolutionary nineteen sixties, a deep understanding of what the revolution was all about. It puts a piece of history that should not be left out or ignored, in the minds and consciousness' of blacks and whites of post sixties generations. As one reads this book a mellowness seeps into the soul and the hard edges of racial prejudice soften.