CONTENTS

Dedication
Epigraph
PROLOGUE A Presidential Pen
PART ONE
CHAPTER 1 Throop Street
CHAPTER 2 Red Summer
CHAPTER 3 Driftwood
CHAPTER 4 An Abundance of Nerve
CHAPTER 5 Musketeer
CHAPTER 6 Time to Leave
CHAPTER 7 Japan
CHAPTER 8 Chocolate Joe
PART TWO
CHAPTER 9 Cub Reporter
CHAPTER 10 More Unwanted Babies
CHAPTER 11 A Taste of National Politics
CHAPTER 12 Washington
CHAPTER 13 Feared Negro
CHAPTER 14 Turning Like a Spinning Top
CHAPTER 15 Asking Questions No One Else Would
CHAPTER 16 Irks Ike
CHAPTER 17 Bandung
CHAPTER 18 The Defender’s Nellie Bly
CHAPTER 19 South at the Crossroads
CHAPTER 20 The Gladiator Wears a Reverse Collar
CHAPTER 21 Ghana
CHAPTER 22 A Toothless Act
CHAPTER 23 The Vice-President Comes Calling
CHAPTER 24 The Door Remains Closed
CHAPTER 25 We Shall Overcome
PART THREE
CHAPTER 26 Soul Brothers in Vietnam
CHAPTER 27 Playing Into Their Hands
CHAPTER 28 The Poor People’s Campaign
CHAPTER 29 Resurrection City
CHAPTER 30 Nixon Redux
CHAPTER 31 Africa Bound
CHAPTER 32 China
CHAPTER 33 You Can’t Go Home Again
CHAPTER 34 Finding a New Role
CHAPTER 35 On Her Own African Mission
CHAPTER 36 Professor Payne
CHAPTER 37 Hymietown
CHAPTER 38 Agitate, Agitate, Agitate
CHAPTER 39 Forgotten
CHAPTER 40 Citizen of the World
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
A Note on Sources
Notes
Index
Photos Section
About the Author
Also by James McGrath Morris
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher

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