Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
A Note on St. Clair Drake's "Foreword"
Foreword to the George Nesbitt Manuscript
A Note on the Manuscript
Preface
1. Our Family's Great Migration
2. A Family Which Stayed Together
3. Learning to Be Somebody
4. The Comfort of My Negroness
5. Going to University
6. Town and Gown
7. Lawyer by Day, Redcap at Night
8. The Army and Its Apartheid
9. The Ugly Specter of Race Discrimination
10. Poking at the Good, White Liberals
11. An Exceptional Family in the Lawndale Ghetto
12. The Future of Our People
Postscript
Acknowledgments