1 The Mammoth Teardrop: Life in South St. Louis during the 1950s 1 -- 2 But Why Do I Have to Ride a Streetcar to School?: Turn-of-the-Century St. Louis 11 -- 3 Heart to Hart and Stem to Stern 31 -- 4 Upstairs/Downstairs: Recollections of an Embalmer's Daughter 45 -- 5 Chicago's South Side: The Promised Land-Almost 69 -- 6 Riding a Different Kind of Current: Political Activism in the 1930s and 1940s 79 -- 7 The First March on Washington: So Successful That It Didn't Happen 113 -- 8 What a Fabulous Party!: Entertainment in Jim Crow's Shadow 131 -- 9 The Hub: The Peoples Finance Building 149 -- 10 Hi-De-Ho: Famous Faces from Faraway Places 165 -- 11 Moving Waaaaaaaay Down South 181 -- 12 What a Pair! 203 -- 13 Bringing It All Home 229 -- Addendum: Credo of the American Negro Citizen A.D. 1942 / David M. Grant 241
