I Ain't Comin' Back

I first heard Dr. Weary speak at a Mission Mississippi Day of Dialogue meeting. At the time I was sufficiently deaf to his message that I passed up a chance to get a copy of his book. A year later with personal growth in race relations which resulted from a two day training session in racial reconcilation sponsored by the Mississippi Diocese of the Episcopal Church and personal attention I was led to purchase this book and read it in preparation for his appearance at the local church I attend. I found the book inspiring, free of rancor, and filled with enthusiasm for advancing a racially reconciled world. Dr. Weary is an admirable leader and his message, both written and spoken, is worthy of many hearers.

Dolphus Weary did a wonderful job in writing this book. Once you begin to read it the harder it is to put it down.

Weary's book is the inspiring story of one man's struggle to escape from racism and poverty in rural Mississippi--only to respond to God's call to return. In the tradition of Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi, Weary's books gives an inside look at rural black life in Mississippi before the Civil Rights Movement. But unlike Moody, Weary chose to return to Mississippi and to work for positive change. I Ain't Comin' Back challenges us to consider the power of one life lived in surrender to God's calling. Read it!

This book helped me realise how it was to be a black in the deep south in the 50's and 60's but it also gave a lot of hope and with faith in God things were changed