Prologue: The Mystery of Michelle Obama's Roots | p. 1 |
Migration | |
Phoebe, the Wanderer | p. 19 |
St. Louis | p. 29 |
Siren Song of the North | p. 38 |
A Family Grows in Chicago | p. 46 |
Exploding Dreams | p. 60 |
A Child of the Jazz Age | p. 72 |
A Man of Promise | p. 77 |
Stumbling Backward | p. 81 |
Love in Hard Times | p. 87 |
Struggling and Striving | p. 98 |
The Search for the Truth | p. 111 |
The Demise of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow | |
A Man on the Rise | p. 119 |
Left Behind | p. 130 |
Neither Black Nor White | p. 141 |
The Reckoning | p. 153 |
Birmingham, The Magic City | p. 161 |
Two Brothers, Two Destinies | p. 171 |
The One-Armed Patriarch | p. 179 |
Twilight | p. 188 |
The Search for the Truth: Atlanta | p. 198 |
Slavery and Emancipation | |
A Slave Girl Named Melvinia | p. 209 |
Journey To Georgia | p. 218 |
South Carolina Gold | p. 228 |
A Child Is Born | p. 240 |
Born Free | p. 251 |
Exodus | p. 264 |
The Civil War | p. 271 |
Uneasy Freedom | p. 285 |
Epilogue: Melvinia's Secret | p. 297 |
Acknowledgments | p. 305 |
Notes | p. 311 |
Bibliography | p. 357 |
Index | p. 369 |
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