Description: A black moonshiner and civil rights activist's autobiographical report on complex events in southern history neglected by white historians
Brief description: Louise Westling is professor emerita of English at the University of Oregon.
Review Quotes: Self-taught local historian Frost tells the story of his life as a black Alabamian in the violent, virulently white supremacist Jim Crow South. Frost speaks for rural men who asserted their manhood confronting white men determined to keep blacks subservient in a system of racial injustice. But Frost also writes about the friendship and cooperation that whites and blacks shared. He recounts the terrorism of lynching, economic racism, the social reality behind his moonshine business, and his time in the prison labor system and involvement in voter registration. . . . Frost's autobiographical history adds the infrequently heard voice of rural black southern men to African American literature.--Charles L. Lumpkins, Bloomsburg University Library (Pennsylvania) "Library Journal"