In A Ministry. Not a Job: Memoirs of a Middle School Teacher, author Levert Hedgemon, Jr. reflects on his fifty-four-year career as a student, teacher, colleague, and mentor in the Tuscaloosa City Schools. Growing up during the Jim Crow era of segregation, racial tension, social unrest, civil disobedience, and the Civil Rights Movement, which gave rise to integration, Hedgemon chronicles his life and his stellar career as an educator. Knowing the...