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Beginning with a slave owned by Thomas Jefferson, to Malcolm X and Dick
Gregory, nineteen Negroes tell of their childhood in America

Contents (Excerpts)
1. GROWING UP BLACK
   A man called white / Walter White
   Long shadow of Little Rock / Daisy Bates
   The seeking / Will Thomas
   Let me live / Angelo Herndon
   Dark symphony / Elizabeth Adams
2. THE 19TH C.: A TIME OF UPHEAVAL
   Memoirs of a Monticello slave / Isaac Jefferson
   Life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass
   Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington
   Black man's burden / William Holtzclaw
   In spite of the handicap / James D. Corrothers
3. The 20th C.: THE BITTER LEGACY
   His eye is on the sparrow / Ethel Waters
   Choice of weapons / Gordon Parks
   Go up for glory / Bill Russell
   Autobiography of Malcolm X (w Alex Haley)
   Manchild in the promised land / Claude Brown
   No day of triumph / J. Saunders Redding
   Black boy / Richard Wright
   Nigger / Dick Gregory (w Robert Lipsyte)