The book retraces a white man's journey into the 1960s Segregated South as a warrior for integration. He taught at black schools and colleges and was a protester, a lay preacher, and was jailed more than once because of his protesting. The author was a student at Yale, and then took advantage of some opportunities to preach and to teach in Alabama, Florida and Georgia. He worked with Martin Luther King and others during his tenure in the south, and absorbed the ire of segregationists, and not without some consequences and near consequences.