“Pip Cooper, a notorious prankster, attends a strict religious school in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking misadventures that shake the foundations of the segregationist state.”
New Roads to Old Places
By Phillip Norris
Pip Cooper is an extraordinary prankster who is forced to attend a Montgomery, Alabama religious school in an effort by his parents to change his troublesome ways and convert him to the family faith, the New Roads denomination. He hones his prankster skills with the help of his new friends at his new school, Pecker and Archie. After spending two years there, the New Roads School and College will never be the same again.
George Wallace had been a customer on Pip’s paper route and was elected Governor as Pip begins attending his new school. His grave mistake was deciding to prank the segregationist powers that ran the state government in the early 1960’s in Alabama. His high jenks will put a naïve white teenaged boy in the crosshairs of death and destiny and the most important person in his life; his neighbor, his advisor, and a young Jewish housewife from New York will get dragged into his ill conceived plans to disrupt the segregationist resistance to civil rights. His penitence is costly and his release can only be attained by the passage of time and revenge, which he believes is best served up ice cold.
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Phil's Story
Phillip Norris was born in 1948 and grew up in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950’s and 1960’s. His father was the state president of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and active in the AFL-CIO Union movement. He was influenced by listening to his father talk politics with his friend Clifford Durr, a noted human rights lawyer, Rhodes Scholar, FCC commissioner, and one of the lawyers that got Rosa Parks out of jail in 1955.
