Table of Contents

Foreword by Julian Bond

Preface

Letter to My Sisters and Brothers

Book One: A Constant Struggle

1. Driven Insane

2. Childhood and Coca-Cola

3. Roots of the Black Manifesto

4. Ready to Kill

5. A Family Fight

6. Dreams and a .38 Cold

7. Corrupt Black Preachers

8. You're in the Army Now

9. Okinawa--A Bad Dream

10. Feeling Like a New Car

11. God is Dead: A Question of Power

12. Keep Your Pride

13. Time For Action

14. The great White Rat

15. Georgia Mae Hard Times

16. Forgetting the People

17. Diary of Fayette

18. Lucretia Collins: "The Spirit of Nashville"

19. Violence or Nonviolence

20. The Klan and a Frame-up

21. The Kissing Case

22. Robert Williams Versus Roy Wilkins

23. No Room at the Swimming Pool

24. Eruption in Newtown

25. Moment of Death

26. Strong Black Women

27. Inside the Monroe Jail

28. Justice, Monroe Style

Book Two: A Band of Sisters and Brothers, in a Circle of Trust

29. Miss Ella Baker

30. McComb, Mississippi

31. The Circle Begins

32. Inside a Cubicle

33. Albany, Georgia

34. Attack the Power Center

35. Broke, Busted, But Not Disgusted

36. Terror in the Delta

37. Ulcers and Carnegie Hall

38. Noes for the Greenwood Jail

39. Freedom Walk

40. Betrayal in Birmingham

41. Selma: Diary of a Freedom Fighter

42. Machine Guns in Danville

43. The March on Washington

44. Americus, Georgia

45. Selma Freedom Day

46. The Freedom Vote

47. The "Big Five" and SNCC

48. Inside the Mississippi Summer Project

49. The 1964 Democratic Convention

50. Profiles in Treachery

51. African Interlude

52. Internal Disorder

53. Power for Black People

54. Kingston Springs

55. Black Power Strikes

56. Dynamite in Philadelphia

57. The Bureau of Internal Revenue Attacks

58. Rock Bottom

59. The Indivisible Struggle

60. The Arab-Israeli Dispute

61. Blacks Assume Leadership

62. The Organization of African Unity

63. Literation Will Come from a Black Thing

64. The Black Panther Party

65. The Black Manifesto

Postscript

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