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A personal, inspiring memoir of Felker Ward Jr., an Atlanta, Georgia, legal, business, community and military legend. He is also a husband, father of four and grandfather. Introduction by former Atlanta Mayor and United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young. Includes dozens of photos.
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Andrew Young
Introduction
I. CHILDHOOD
1 Whittier Mill Village
2 Living Life on Browntown Road
3 The Move to Tuskegee
4 Back to Atlanta
5 David T. Howard High School
6 Felker Ward Jr., Tobacco Farmer
7 Booker T. Washington High School
8 God Came to Me Disguised as a Water Moccasin
9 College: A Return to Tuskegee
II. ARMY DAYS, BLUE SKY DREAMS
10 First Stop: Fort Benning, Georgia
11 On to Berlin
12 Texas: Learning to Fly
13 Back to Fort Benning: Mary’s Dress Waves
14 Married and Alone, Part 1: Welcome to South Korea, Soldier
15 Fort Meade: Happy Wife, Happy Life
16 Europe Calls … And I Refuse a Job
17 Married and Alone, Part 2: Vietnam
18 Fort McPherson, Georgia
III. CIVILIAN LIFE
19 To Law School and Beyond
20 1970: The Saddest Day of My Life
21 Public Service, Public Life
22 Boards of Higher Education
23 The Practice and the Business That Followed
24 Breaking into the White Country Clubs of Atlanta, But at What Cost?
25 Concessions International Takes Flight
IV. FATHER, GRANDFATHER, HUNTER, FISHERMAN
26 Church Life
27 The Hunter
28 CASA: A View from the Top
29 Our Children
Appendix A: Additional Photographs
Appendix B: Awards, Citations, Recognition
About the Author
Index