The lifestyles tale of a black lawyer, who grew up in Birmingham through the Civil Rights move. he's the grandson of Luther L. Chambliss, mentioned to were the 1st black legislations college graduate to were admitted to perform legislations in Alabama. the writer got a scholarship from a Quaker association to accomplish his final 2 years of highschool, whereas residing with a white relatives in suburban Connecticut. The big apple instances mentioned on his winning admission over vocal heated competition to his attendance on the highschool, positioned within the all white neighborhood. He then went directly to Wesleyan collage, the place he turned excited by the scholar protest circulation. Taking a yr off from university, he labored for an anti-poverty business enterprise at the reduce East facet of latest York urban, turned concerned with the Black Panther get together and whilst made many acquaintances one of the Jazz musicians locally. Returning to Birmingham to acquire his undergraduate measure on the collage of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB), he graduated from Harvard legislation university and practiced legislation in Memphis, the place he used to be the 1st black legal professional in Tennessee to turn into a accomplice in a majority white legislations enterprise and was once elected because the first black president of the Memphis Bar organization. Mr. Chambliss has practiced legislation in Memphis for greater than 30 years.