Contents

Foreword by Mark D. Naison

Acknowledgments

Timeline

Part I

1    Early Days

2    Harlem and the Cotton Club

3    Moving Up

4    Show Biz

5     Joining the Party

Part II

6    The Young Communist League

7    The War Years

8    Back Home

9    La Lucha Continua

Part III

10  Starting Over

11  Malimwu

12  The Cotton Club Revisited

13  Martin Luther King Day in Hawaii

14  Paris to Texas and Home Again

Photographs

Notes

Further Reading

Map of Harlem Nightclubs in the 1930s and ’40s

Howard E. Johnson’s Curriculum Vitae

Index