The shadow that scares me. / Dick Gregory ; edited by James R. McGraw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gregory, Dick.

Contributor:

McGraw, James R., editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

213 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968.

Contents:

I. You Will Know the Truth. The Revolution Right Against Wrong; The Soldiers and the 4-F's; The Black Racists; How Fair Can the Black Man Be?; The Truth About Freedom; The Syndicate and the Ku Klux Klan; The White Man's Slavery; The Wintertime Soldier

II. America is My Momma. Take a Prostitute to Church; Why Judas?; Joseph and Mary at the Hilton; If You Had to Kill Your Own Hog; The Lord Knew There Would be Needles; Illegitimate Parents; "Relief" or "Foreign Aid"?; When the State Kills; America was Momma's Momma

III. Who's the Nigger Today? Praying over Stolen Food; The Half-Truth Hang-Up; Cleaning Up After the Party; The Image Forced Upon the Cop; The Cop and the Fireman; Give the Cop His Due; The Cop and the Ghetto Kid; Reacting to Birth Pangs

IV. If You Cut Me, I am Going to Bleed. Every Man needs an Address; The System Makes Him a Litterbug; Doorbells and Relief; Give the Kid a Toilet; Bigger than a Head-Box; Natural Power; White Man, Listen

V. America's Caesar. Why Credit the Communists?; Civil Rights Laws are a Fraud; Why Can't We Be Tax Collectors?; Voting Power

VI. Nonviolent Protest or Eyetooth Revolution? Sons of Liberty; How to Avoid Riots; Pay Attention, America!; The Recovery of Manhood; Nonviolence: The Two-Edged Sword

VII. Windy Cities. The Hand of Oppression; The Thunder of Judgment; Give Us a Drink of Water; Too Free to Be Patient; Violence is the Voice of the Black Ghetto; Run, Whitey, Run

VIII. The Shoe's too Tight. A Callus on his Soul; Nature Protects her Own

IX. The Name Game. The Fish-In; Justice or "Just Us"?; Red Power; Black Power; Spontaneous Combustion; The Hungry Mind; Channeling the Flood

X. The City of Chaos. The Difference Between the South and North; The Right to Walk Down a Street; Dreaming in a Movie; In College Under False Pretenses; "Please, Sir, Get Off My Back".

Notes:

"The thoughts expressed in these prophetic sermons were developed during those years of rapid change between 1962 and 1966. They gew out of deep involvement in the civil rights movement and predate the 1967 summer of violence."

"Jacket design by Robert Aulicino."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.