Product Description: An important addition to the literature of the period, Gentleman Jigger is the story of two brothers. Aeon, who passes for white and becomes a famous poet, faces the conundrums of love across the color line. Stuartt, who is openly homosexual-as was the author-joins the younger intellectuals of Harlem in defying authority figures, both black and white, at the notorious “Niggeratti Manor...read more

The late tennis champion and social activist remembers his experiences in the segregated South of his youth, his triumphs on the court, his family and religious life, and his struggle with AIDS