Tables of Contents for Autobiography of a People

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Chapter/Section Title

Page #

Page Count

Foreword

xvii

Introduction

Part I. PRE-REVOLUTIONARY VOICES

James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1910--?)

Olaudah Equiano (1745--1797)

Phillis Wheatley (1753--1784)

Lemuel Haynes (1753--1833)

John Cuffe (c. 1755--?)

Part II. THE LORD WILL PROVIDE

Richard Allen (1760--1831)

Old Elizabeth (1766--?)

Jupiter Hammon (c. 1711--1806)

Belinda (c. 1717--?)

Benjamin Banneker (1731--1806)

Prince Hall (1748--1797)

Part III. FROM THE COTTON PATCH TO THE BIG HOUSE

Jenny Proctor (c. 1845--?)

Peter Williams (?--1849)

Abd ar-Rahman (c. 1790--?)

Austin Steward (1793--1860)

Part IV. LET YOUR MOTTO BE RESISTANCE!

Nat Turner (1800--1831)

Henry Highland Garnet (1815--1882)

Harriet Jacobs (1815?--1897)

Frederick Douglass (1818--1895)

John Parker (1827--1900)

Osborne Anderson (1830--1872)

103

Part V. CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BLUE AND THE GRAY

Mattie J. Jackson (1800--?)

113

William Wells Brown (1814--1884)

118

Robert Purvis (1810--1898)

120

Harriet Tubman (1820--1913)

121

Elizabeth Keckley (1824--1907)

122

John Boston (1842--?)

126

Charlotte Forten (1837--1914)

127

Ann (c. 1835--?)

132

Octave Johnson (1840--?)

133

Patsey Leach (1843--?)

134

Part VI. NO LAND, NO MULES, AND FOR MILLIONS, NO VOTE

John Mercer Langston (1829--1879)

139

Sojourner Truth (c. 1797--1883)

144

Samuel Larkin (c. 1840--?)

146

John R. Lynch (1847--1939)

148

Part VII. DAWN OF A NEW CENTURY

Booker T. Washington (1857?--1915)

155

Lewis Latimer (1848--1929)

161

Henry McNeal Turner (1834--1915)

164

Anna Julia Cooper (1858/9--1964)

168

Mary Church Terrell (1863--1954)

171

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872--1906)

175

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875--1935)

177

Part VIII. AND SOME OF US ARE BOLD

James Weldon Johnson (1871--1938)

185

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868--1963)

191

Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862--1931)

198

Matthew Henson (1866--1955)

204

Ferdinand ``Jelly Roll'' Morton (1890--1941)

207

Jack Johnson (1878--1946)

211

Ethel Waters (1896--1977)

215

Part IX. SEEKING A WIDER WORLD

Addie Hunton (1875--1943)

223

Harry Haywood (1898--1985)

226

Era Bell Thompson (1906--1986)

229

Dorothy West (1909--1998)

234

Richard Wright (1908--1960)

237

Marcus Garvey (1887--1940)

244

Part X. THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE AND BEYOND

Langston Hughes (1898--1967)

251

Howard ``Stretch'' Johnson (1915--)

257

Zora Neale Hurston (1891--1960)

262

Pauli Murray (1910--1985)

266

Nate Shaw (c. 1900--)

272

Haywood Patterson (1931--1952)

276

James Cameron (1914--)

280

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (1908--1972)

285

Part XI. ON THE HOME FRONT

Conrad Lynn (1908--1995)

295

Marian Anderson (1900--1993)

298

Nelson Peery (1923--)

301

Althea Gibson (1927--)

305

A. Philip Randolph (1889--1979)

309

Clarence Atkins (1992--)

313

Charles Denby (1907--1983)

317

Maya Angelou (1928--)

323

Coleman Young (1918--1998)

326

Part XII. THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM

Curtis Morrow (1933--)

335

Jane (1914--)

340

Paul Robeson (1898--1976)

343

Sunnie Wilson (1908--1999)

350

Coretta Scott King (1927--)

355

Constance Baker Motley (1921--)

360

Part XIII. AIN'T GONNA LET NOBODY TURN US AROUND

Rosa Parks (1913--)

369

Ella Baker (1903--1986)

371

James Forman (1928--)

375

Melba Pattillo Beals (1942--)

379

Part XIV. BREAKTHROUGHS AND PERSONAL INTIMACIES

Ossie Davis (1917--) and Ruby Dee (1924--)

389

Anne Moody (1940--)

394

Sharon Robinson (1950--)

398

Malcolm X (1925--1965)

401

General Gordon Baker (1942--)

407

Gordon Parks (1912--)

409

David Parks (1944--)

414

Part XV. TO DIE FOR THE PEOPLE

Kwame Ture (1941--1998)

421

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929--1968)

427

H. Rap Brown (1943--)

434

Angela Davis (1944--)

438

George Jackson (1941--1971)

441

Elaine Brown (1943--)

445

Randall Robinson (1941--)

448

Part XVI. A WAY WITH WORDS

LL Cool J (1968--)

455

Johnnie Cochran (1938--)

459

Margaret Walker (1915--)

462

Lee Stringer (1950--)

468

Sam Fulwood (1956--)

471

Tyrone Powers (1961--)

474

Part XVII. BITTER THE CHASTENING ROD

Audre Lorde (1934--1993)

481

Jill Nelson (1953--)

486

Johnnetta B. Cole (1936--)

490

Max Roach (1924--)

494

Alvin Ailey (1931--1989)

497

Colin L. Powell (1937--)

500

Part XVIII. ``NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!''

Al Sharpton (1954--)

507

Bari--Ellen Roberts (1953--)

511

Anita Hill (1950--)

516

Gary Franks (1953--)

522

James McBride (1957--)

527

Mumia Abu-Jamal (1956--)

531

Kevin Powell (1966--)

533

Rev. Bernice King (1963--)

538

Selected Bibliography

544

Permissions

546