Crossing Border Street : a civil rights memoir / Peter Jan Honigsberg.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-170) and index.

1. From the Subway to Mississippi -- 2. Armed Escorts -- 3. Klan Violence and the Deacons -- 4. First Cousins -- 5. Evenings at Cozy Corners -- 6. Stepping off the Sidelines -- 7. Welcome to New Orleans -- 8. Litigating the End to Segregation -- 9. Hiroshima Vigil -- 10. Slave Quarters on Royal Street -- 11. An Unwarranted Touching -- 12. Louisiana Justice -- 13. Jailhouse Fears -- 14. Sobol v Perez -- 15. "Throw Me Something, Mister" -- 16. Unsettling Experiences -- 17. "We'll Bring Your Freedom Back to You" -- 18. Moving On.

"Honigsberg's narrative conveys the emotions and personal dangers activists faced and examines the work of three charismatic black leaders: A.Z. Young, Robert Hicks, and Gayle Jenkins. He describes how the Deacons worked with the Bogalusa Voters League to boycott the white owned businesses in the downtown area and to integrate the local schools, restaurants, parks, and paper mill.

He also relates the story of Gary Duncan, a black man charged with battery for touching a white boy in Plaquemines Parish, the fiefdom of arch-segregationist Leander Perez. Honigsberg was part of the team that took the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and eventually established the constitutional right to a jury trial.".