Just Zack is the story of a black man born during the Depression, raised in the deep South, has fearlessly experienced the effects of segregation and Jim Crow but never having been understood or "assimilated" as the sociological term implies to it.
As an adult, I was the first member of my family to have received a college degree. I received a bachelor's degree in Sociology from California State University in San Bernardino, hoping to unlock the mystery of Jim Crow. I did not. I identified with the black national movement of that time.
I was seventy-five when I became a...