Defiant dreams -- Civil rights and protests -- The Mary Street boys -- The beginning -- Starting a family -- Mischief -- Preschool at Miss Lizzie B's -- Hello, DeSoto Parish Training School -- The other Mansfield -- Making the grades -- TV, radio, and rock and roll -- Family crisis -- A team of our own -- Churchgoing time -- A new school -- An incident to remember -- The wedding of the year -- This little light of mine -- A new DeSoto -- The playwright -- The end of baseball -- Awakening -- Last year -- Graduation -- Goodbyes -- Moving on -- Joining the struggle -- Paying the cost -- Afterword.