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Contents Foreword, by Nikki Giovanni xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Growing Up in Memphis 9 On to Scotlandville 25 Protest Comes to Scotlandville 33 Klieg Lights and Microphones 39 How to Kill a Protest 47 Encounters of the NSA Kind 54 NSA Summer Camp Transformations 64 Singing in the Tear Gas 73 Arrested Development 84 An Offensive Christmas 94 Eye to Eye with the Enemy 99 Expulsion, Dismissal 110 Turning the Page 119 A Siege Mentality 126 The Journey Home 136 Radical Is as Radical Does 143 The L-Word 151 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Provocateur 156 The Original X Man 163 Brother Rat 179 DARE 185 Encounters of the First Kind 193 DARE in Action 200 The March on Washington 209 A Bona Fide Negro 214 Index 231 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. viii contents ...

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