Introduction. Black feet running on white sand -- Part I. Kid's stuff -- Pride may not be a sin -- Poverty turned inside-out -- Rhythm and blues -- Divided, I stood -- Part II. Out in the real world -- Wasp nest -- Living room with the tree -- Come-to-Jesus moment -- Part III. Boots on the ground -- Backstage at the movement -- All the paper in Birmingham -- March -- Intellectual property -- Last speech of the day -- Speaking truth to power -- Part IV. Straddling two worlds -- Work-life-King balance -- Red menace -- This means war -- Who can answer "the Negro question"? -- Mob mentality -- Diverging views of the solution -- Self-medication : the early years -- Interlude. Inflection point -- For the least of these -- Part V. Afterburn -- Self-medication : the later years -- Harlem dawn -- "You can't save everyone" -- Geopolitics -- Cradle and the grave -- Institutional memory -- Invasion of privacy -- Epilogue. Elder statesman -- Prognosis.