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table of contents
  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction: Frame of My Destiny
  9. Chapter 1. Impatient for Change
    1. Confronting the Realities of Race
  10. Chapter 2. From Whence We Came
    1. Early Education of Slaves
    2. Education of My Ancestors During Slavery
    3. Maternal Ancestors
      1. Riley–Brown Lineage
      2. King–Riley Lineage
    4. Paternal Ancestors: Green–Bowers Lineage
  11. Chapter 3. Education Is the Key
    1. Early Support for Black Education
    2. Progression of Black Educational Development
    3. Proliferation of Black Educational Institutions in Orangeburg
  12. Chapter 4. Growing Up in Orangeburg
    1. Railroad Corner
    2. Social, Academic, and Home Life
  13. Chapter 5. Core Family
  14. Chapter 6. False Hope
    1. Impact of Barack Obama’s Election
  15. Chapter 7. Life in the 1950s
    1. Growing Up in Thunderbolt, Georgia
    2. Black Social Life in Savannah
  16. Chapter 8. Promise of the 1960s
    1. Enrollment at Fisk University
    2. Symptoms of the Sixties
  17. Chapter 9. Forever to Thee
    1. Interracial Dating
    2. Revelation
  18. Chapter 10. Foggy Bottom
  19. Chapter 11. Langdell Hall
    1. Challenges at Harvard Law School
    2. Relationship with Harvard Law Professors
    3. Racial Climate at Harvard Law
    4. Social Life at Harvard Law
  20. Chapter 12. Omnipresence of Vietnam
  21. Chapter 13. Pigotts
    1. Description of Pigotts
    2. First Travel to England
    3. Cricket Explained
    4. Tatiana Orloff
    5. Bernard Wheeler-Robinson
    6. Eric Gill’s Life at Pigotts
    7. Pigotts’s Lasting Effect
  22. Chapter 14. Early Years of Law Practice
    1. First Legal Job at Hale & Dorr
    2. Legal Wilderness
  23. Chapter 15. USC School of Law, Returning Home
  24. Chapter 16. Settling Years
    1. Becky’s Family Background
    2. Early Marriage Years
  25. Chapter 17. Climbing the Corporate Ladder
    1. Settling in at Aetna Life & Casualty
    2. Returning to Law Firm Practice at Day Pitney
  26. Chapter 18. Who Owns the Past?
    1. The Elgin Marbles
    2. Black Lives Matter
  27. Chapter 19. Twilight Club
  28. Epilogue: Always Looking Forward
  29. Acknowledgments
  30. Notes
  31. Index

Contents

  1. List of Illustrations
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction: Frame of My Destiny
  4. chapter 1. Impatient for Change
  5. chapter 2. From Whence We Came
  6. chapter 3. Education Is the Key
  7. chapter 4. Growing Up in Orangeburg
  8. chapter 5. Core Family
  9. chapter 6. False Hope
  10. chapter 7. Life in the 1950s
  11. chapter 8. Promise of the 1960s
  12. chapter 9. Forever to Thee
  13. chapter 10. Foggy Bottom
  14. chapter 11. Langdell Hall
  15. chapter 12. Omnipresence of Vietnam
  16. chapter 13. Pigotts
  17. chapter 14. Early Years of Law Practice
  18. chapter 15. USC School of Law, Returning Home
  19. chapter 16. Settling Years
  20. chapter 17. Climbing the Corporate Ladder
  21. chapter 18. Who Owns the Past?
  22. chapter 19. Twilight Club
  23. Epilogue: Always Looking Forward
  24. Acknowledgments
  25. Notes
  26. Index

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