Olivia Dunnigan White; the story of a woman who started a choir that sang even with the threat that the police would beat them for singing, a choir that outran the Klan on dark and lonely highways, a choir that marched with a movement into history.

Cinderella Williams, a member of the T.Y. Rogers Choir, grew up during a time when she could have donut holes but not donuts. She grew up during the confusion and danger of the first days of school integration. She grew up in a world where she was not white enough for the whites and not black enough for the blacks, a world in which she finally decided “I am what I am.”

Bishop Ernest Palmer, a man who grew up in a Jim Crow Birmingham who later became the first black student at the all white Livingston College, now known as The University of West Alabama.When a group of white students threw white baby powder on him shouting, “If you want to be white, take this,” he had to remind himself of the importance of staying the course through a non-violent movement, all this while leading a choir that sang at rallies across the South.

When Maxie Thomas was faced with the choice of marching on Bloody Tuesday, at the risk of losing his job, he made the decision to march for his children and for his children’s children.

Lu Eddins; The story of a teenage girl who joined her mother and her sister in the movement, was jailed and threatened with abuse, and still remained non-violent, discovering a whole new world through a program called SCOPE.

Bettye Rogers Maye tells the story of growing up with her brother T. Y. Rogers, Jr. in the rural black belt of Alabama where he was, even at a young age, a fighter for equal rights. When Dr. King asked Reverend Rogers to move south from Philadelphia, she remembers asking Dr. King, “Why would you ask my brother to move south from Philadelphia? He’s going to get killed.” And Dr. King answered, “Now, why would you say that? I’m not dead.”

Gina Rogers Price; When her father, T. Y. Rogers, Jr. was sent by Dr. King to First African Baptist Church to lead the movement in Tuscaloosa, a young Gina Rogers discovered a community of courageous, non-violent people, was witness to Bloody Sunday, the march that ushered in The Voting Rights Act and still lives with the tragedy and mystery of her father‘s death.

Jerry Martin; When the Klan threatened to murder Reverend Rogers, Reverend Rogers did not want Mr. Martin and other men from the church to arm themselves with shotguns, because the movement was non-violent. But they did it anyway to protect Reverend Rogers and his family at night. They were known as the Deacons for Defense.

When a young Thomas Linton came to Tuscaloosa to cut hair and attend Stillman College, he had no idea that his barber shop would one day be command headquarters for the Civil Rights movement in Tuscaloosa, with a phone line to Bobby Kennedy.

Jean Eddins grew up one street over from a Klansman who wore his robe in the front yard and carried the hood in his hands. She joined the movement with her mother and her sister and their grandmother. She marched on Bloody Tuesday, had acid thrown in her face, was jailed and still, through all this, held firm to the dream of nonviolent change in America.

John Byrd; the voice of an angel and the heart of a good man helped lead a choir through a non-violent revolution that changed the world.

Afraid for her safety, the parents and husband of Dorothy Mitchell were against her joining the movement. She did what they asked. While shopping in a department store, her baby had to potty. When the manager of the store said that baby could not use the store bathroom, that was enough. She joined the movement, something she might not have done for herself, but she did it for her baby.

Dester Johnson tells the story of her struggles during the days of the Civil Rights Movement and her time with the choir. She talks about the change that the movement helped bring about and how the struggle in her own heart made her a better and kinder person.

Deborah Knox Busch, A young member of the T.Y. Rogers Choir remembers the Monday night mass meetings, the marches, the rallies and the excitement for the promise of better jobs and better education.