The author rose from an impoverished Minneapolis ghetto to become one of the city's leading voices for equality. The founding chief executive of the Minneapolis Urban Coalition and a twenty-year member of the city's school board, he was also one of the first black executives at a major Twin Cities corporation. Along the way he overcame polio, became the region's most successful amateur-boxing coach, led a church merger, founded a bank, served on the U.S. Olympic boxing committee, and campaigned as the city's first black mayoral candidate.
The autobiography of a man who grew up in the segregated city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the early twentieth century and became active in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
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