When the USS Truxtun was shipwrecked off the coast of Newfoundland in 1942, an African-American service-man named Lanier Phillips was rescued by the people of the town of St. Lawrence. The kindness he received transformed his life and ignited a lasting passion for civil rights. Lanier went on to a distinguished career in the US Navy, and he later marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., worked with Jacques Cousteau, and retold his story of transformation...