The White Man Who Stayed
This is a story of one white man, but also of an epic struggle that still plagues the South. Following perilous duty on a destroyer in World War II, then becoming the first person in his family to earn a college degree, Douglas Autry returned to his native Mississippi and was elected county superintendent of education. Thus began a heroic journey to bring change to a place and to people who had proved over and over again they did not want any change that threatened their way of life.
FOREWORD by Bill Moyers, an American journalist and political commentator. Moyers served as White House Press Secretary under the Johnson administration from 1965 to 1967. He also worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years.