“A quietly inspiring civil rights memoir by a white southerner. Having been born into a wealthy Nashville family, Howell (Hard Living on Clay Street, 1990) enjoys a charmed childhood of country-club dances and charity fetes. But this cocoon of privilege is soon ripped apart by two very different cataclysms tearing through mid-20th-century America—polio and desegregation.” >> Read the entire Kirkus review

“Joe Howell knows how to tell a story.  And the story he tells defies the heroic stereotypes of the civil rights movement, transcends the melodramatic posturing, to deliver a slice of that very rare thing – the way it really was.”
-Joseph Ellis
Mount Holyoke College
Author of Founding Brothers

“Joseph Howell has written a remarkable memoir. He takes us on a journey to rural Georgia at the height of the civil rights movement and the rise of black power. His account of his struggles to work with black activists to make change in communites deeply marred by entrenched issues of racism and social injustice is honest and passionate.”
-Mark R. Warren
Author of Fire in the Heart: How White Activist Embrace Racial Justice

“Civil Rights Journey by Joseph Howell is a truly wonderful piece of writing. Joe Howell’s personal story in the first section of the book is deeply moving and provides a beautiful frame for their Albany journey. As the Howells work with black SNCC workers in Albany, Georgia, they offer the reader a rare view of the civil rights movement during this important time. His powerful, honest book will be read and loved by many.
-William Ferris
University of North Carolina
Former chair, National Endowment for the Humanities