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Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Editorial Method
Introduction
Part 1: The See-Saw of Race
No Half-Freedoms
Key Chains with No Keys
Get Together, Minorities
The See-Saw of Race
Sorry Spring
U.S. Likes Nazis and Franco Better Than Its Own Negroes
A Sentimental Journey to Cairo, Illinois
The Dilemma of the Negro Teacher Facing Desegregation
How to Integrate without Danger of Intermarriage
A Brickbat for Education-A Kiss for the Bedroom in Dixie
The Man of the Year for 1958
Sit Tight-and Don't Squirm
Part 2: Jim Crow's Epitaph
Are You Spanish?
Doc, Wait! I Can't Sublimate!
Theaters, Clubs, and Negroes
Adventures in Dining
Encounter at the Counter
Freight
With the Crumbling of the Old Chain, Jim Crow Crumbles, Too
MacArthur Lives in the Waldorf-Astoria; Gilbert Lives in Jail
From Rampart Street to Harlem I Follow the Trial of the Blues
In Racial Matters in St. Louis "De Sun Do Move"
Old Customs Die Hard
Jim Crow's Epitaph
Part 3: Fair Play in Dixie
Letter to the South
Hold Tight! They're Crazy-White!
Nazi and Dixie Nordics
Fair Play in Dixie
Dear Old Southland
The Death of Bilbo
The Sunny South
Far from Living Up to Its Name, Dixie Has Neither Manners nor Shame
The Quaint, Queer, Funny Old South Has Its Ways
Concerning a Great Mississippi Writer and the Southern Negro
The Same Old Fight All Over Again in Dixie
Part 4: Nerve of Some White Folks
Jokes on Our White Folks
Letter to White Shopkeepers
Suggestions to White Shopkeepers
The Snake in the House
Nerve of Some White Folks
Our White Folks: Shame!
Our White Folks: So?
Our White Folks: Boo!
Those Little Things
Harlem’s Bitter Laughter
The Folk Lore of Race Relations
Part 5: Brazenness of Empire
America after the War
The World after the War
The Detroit Blues
Photographs from Teheran
Colored Lived There Once
Invasion!!!!
Over-Ripe Apple
The Animals Must Wonder
The Fall of Berlin
Part 6: Segregation-Fatigue
He’d Leave Him Dying
Ask for Everything
If Dixie Invades Europe
Gall and Glory
Hey, Doc! I Got Jim Crow Shock!
Fifty Young Negroes
The Purple Heart
War and a Sorry Fear
V-J Night in Harlem
North, South, and the Army
Part 7: Are You a Communist?
The Red Army
Army of Liberation
The Soviet Union
The Soviet Union and Jews
The Soviet Union and Color
The Soviet Union and Women
The Soviet Union and Health
Faults of the Soviet Union
Light and the Soviet Union
Are You a Communist?
A Thorn in the Side
A Portent and a Warning to the Negro People from Hughes
Old Ghost Appears before the Un-American Committee and Refuses to Remove His Hat
The Accusers’ Names Nobody Will Remember, but History Records Du Bois
Why Ill Winds and Dark Clouds Don’t Scare Negroes Much
Part 8: Beating Out the Blues
Child of Charm
Music at Year’s End
The Duke Plays for Russia
On Leaping and Shouting
Art and Integrity
Art and the Heart
Words to Remember: Stein’s
Return of the Native—Musically Speaking—the Drums Come to Harlem
The Influence of Negro Music on American Entertainment
How a Poem Was Born in a Jim Crow Car Rattlingfrom Los Angeles to New Orleans
Slavery and Leadbelly Are Gone, but the Old Songs Go Singing On
Jazz: Its Yesterday, Today and Its Potential Tomorrow
“House Rent Parties” Are Again Returning to Harlem
That Sad, Happy Music Called Jazz
Part 9: Here to Yonder
Why and Wherefore
Don’t Be a Food Sissy
On Missing a Train
Saturday Night
Random Thoughts on Nice People
On Human Loneliness
My Day
My Nights
New York and Us
From the International House, Bronzeville Seems Far Far Away
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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