CONTENTS

Foreword

Editor’s Note

Preface

Part I. Those Early Years

Chapter 1. No Greater Thrill

Chapter 2. The Family Tree and Its Bittersweet Fruit

Chapter 3. Alone atop a Hill

Chapter 4. School Days

Chapter 5. Where There’s a Will

Chapter 6. The Job Hunt

Chapter 7. The Ups and Downs of My First Job

Chapter 8. A Plunge into the Sea of Matrimony

Chapter 9. A Rugged Voyage Ends

Chapter 10. Moving On

Chapter 11. Wading through the Depression

Chapter 12. Seeking Identity, Experience, and Recognition

Part II. A Great New World

Chapter 13. Converging on Washington

Chapter 14. Breaking Down Race—and Gender—Barriers

Chapter 15. A Trip with the President

Chapter 16. The Civil Rights Fights of the Forties

Chapter 17. Profiles of Injustice

Chapter 18. The President Proposes; the Congress Debates

Chapter 19. Almost Pushing the Panic Button

Chapter 20. Freedom Fights of the Fifties

Chapter 21. Eisenhower’s Pique

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index