The book describes, in careful and full detail, the challenges that minority or people of color, especially African Americans encountered while growing up and starting their careers in the American South during the decades of the 1950s and 60s and again, quite often throughout their lives and careers well into the 1970s, 80s, 90s and further into the 2000s. Challenges that thwarted their efforts in trying to seek or achieve some semblance of the American dream afforded " ordinary" American...