Experience an America that remains only in the hearts and minds of those who were brought up in this small southern community. Lost in the sweat of the cotton fields and hidden in the juke joints of muddy water blues, the people of Glen Allan nurtured and protected each other while celebrating life to the fullest.
Third memoir of Clifton Taulbert, beginning in 1967 when he was a young African-American airman, and relating his military work in Washington, D.C. and his experiences during the civil rights movement in his hometown of Glen Allan, Mississippi.
A boy grows up in the segregated South, experiencing both the love and support of his tightly-knit "colored" community, and the bigotry and intolerance of outsiders.