This is the amazing story of how the educational journey of two generations within one family in laboratory schools on college campuses gave their progeny an enormous head start in academic competition over all students they encountered in the classroom -- regardless of the race or socio-economic status of competing students.

Frank and Doris Conic owned and operated Conic Beauty and Barber Supply Company at 615 North Farish Street in Jackson, Mississippi from 1950 to 1975. They were also civil rights icons in Jackson from the 1940’s through the 1970s. They displayed incredible courage on a daily basis in the face of Mississippi’s hardcore, entrenched racism.