When Lonnie Edwards graduates from the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Alabama, he does so as the university's first black student athlete. His skills as a collegiate basketball player with the school gets him invited to try-out with the 1971 - 1972 World Famous Chicago Bulls. The same year that Lonnie graduates college he is drafted by the United States Selective Service for military duty. He also becomes part of recruitment efforts by the U.S. Federal Education System to hire more black male teachers for employment as public educators. After being passed over by the Chicago Bulls due to his 1-A Draft Status with the US Selective Service, Lonnie is offered an opportunity to become a first-year Physical Education [P.E.] teacher at Hooper Alexander Elementary School in DeKalb County Georgia. It is as a fifth-grade P.E. teacher that Lonnie's life is forever changed and where he meets little Nancy Johnson, one of his fifth-grade students. Nancy is physically disabled and takes no...