Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Timeline xxi
6. Part I
7. 1 Early Days 1
8. 2 Harlem and the Cotton Club 26
9. 3 Moving Up 37
10. 4 Show Biz 46
11. 5 Joining the Party 53
12. Part II
13. 6 The Young Communist League 63
14. 7 The War Years 79
15. 8 Back Home 99
16. 9 La Lucha Continua 112
17. Part III
18. 10 Starting Over 133
19. 11 Malimwu 155
20. 12 The Cotton Club Revisited 160
21. 13 Martin Luther King Day in Hawaii 162
22. 14 Paris to Texas and Home Again 166
23. Notes 169
24. Further Reading 175
25. Map of Harlem Nightclubs in the 1930s and ’40s 176
26. Howard E. Johnson’s Curriculum Vitae 179
27. Index 183