[close] In the sequel to the internationally acclaimed "Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored"Clifton L. Taulbert takes the reader on a journey out of the segregated South of his childhood and into the explosive era of the 1960s.

This is the story of what happened when, at age 17, Taulbert boarded the Illiniois Central train on one of its last runs out Greenville, Mississippi, to St. Louis, the city of his dreams. [close]