A different drummer
(Book)

Originally published in the United States by Anchor Books in 1959.

June 1957. One hot afternoon in the backwaters of the Deep South, a young black farmer named Tucker Caliban salts his fields, shoots his horse, burns his house, and heads north with his wife and child. His departure sets off an exodus of the state's entire black population, throwing the established order into confused disarray. Told from the points of view of the white residents who remained, A Different Drummer stands, decades after its first publication, as an extraordinary and prescient triumph of satire and spirit. --,Provided by publisher.