Table of Contents:
  • A Steady, Cool-Headed Boy
  • Plain Living and High Thinking: Atlanta University, 1887-1894
  • A Leader and Helper to My Race
  • Those Ebony Offenbachs
  • The Search for Honor and Fame
  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
  • Finding a New Path
  • Paths Cross: Johnson and the NAACP
  • Rallying the Cohorts: Johnson as Field Secretary
  • Promises and Premises
  • The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bil
  • Issues and Actions: THe NAACP, 1923-1930
  • The Harlem Renaissance
  • My Inner Life is Mine.