In June of 1936, Step Johnson of Savannah, Georgia, a brilliant
black odd-jobs man, part-time thug, full-time womanizer, is a
cynical rebel with numerous causes, usually negative. His sweet and
unselfish girlfriend, twenty-year-old Gancy Miller, "deserts" him
to care for her ill sister, Sweet Annie, in Lourdes, called
Lordies, in the next state. Angry as well as desolate, he
hitchhikes after her.
Gancy, rebounded, is now involved with Lonnie Milsaps, a white
Lourdes barber and gun-dealing entrepreneur whose twin fixations
are hiding his misalliance and frantically chasing a franchise for
the sensational new Royal Crown Colas.
Step's nightmarish pilgrim's progress through emotional and
physical abuse inspires soul searching that is long overdue.
Persecution and introspection continue in Lordies, where he's
blackjacked for deliberately taking a white bus seat. He also
acquires an unwarranted and undesired, yet unshakable, reputation
for miracle-working. Lordies' black establishment resents Step as a
rival. White folk loathe him as an agitator, especially the power
hungry chief of police, Hershel Laycock.
Step becomes the reluctant, yet committed, leader of a
tragically isolated civil rights awakening. Its unexpected climax
is both deadly and inspiring.
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