From the sound of it, Memphis lawyer and former court judge D’Army Bailey doesn’t only think in complete sentences or full paragraphs. More like whole pages at a time. But drawn from a recent 50-minute phone conversation — in time for the publication of Bailey’s memoir The Education of a Black Radical: A Southern Civil Rights Activist’s Journey 1959-1964 (Louisiana State University Press), here’s the gist of it — “it” being Bailey’s thoughts on a variety of subjects, from the state of the student protest movement to the state of South Memphis.
