Wally Donovan is a bright but unmotivated student who becomes involved with the civil rights movement as a result of a friend's enlightenment. This ultimately leads them to volunteer as Freedom Workers in 1965.

Wanting to make a difference in the world and finding a stint in law school unfulfilling, Wally gains his footing as an educator while forming ideas about politics and what the 1960s will mean historically.

First You Hear Thunder combines humorous events in Wally's life with the ugliness of Jim Crow and the beauty of the spirits who fought for their rights. This is interwoven with details of a theory he develops along the way to make sense out of the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.

Author Terry Donnelly is a retired elementary school literacy teacher. He taught writing skills to elementary school children for over thirty years and taught writing pedagogy to teachers and university students for ten. Donnelly has written memoirs, poetry, and short prose since 1965. He has also published several educational and staff development articles.

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