Life Lines: The Lanier Phillips Story

by Christine Welldon

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550815512
• ISBN13: 9781550815511
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Breakwater Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"