The rise and fall of a proper Negro: an autobiography/ [Leslie Alexander Lacy]

Prologue: The end of negro existentialism -- I. To make a proper negro -- II. Another southern town -- III. Do your toilet rapidly and early -- IV The cats and kittens -- V The birds -- VI Black -- VII Exile to search -- VIII The political kingdom -- IX Dusk of dawn -- X Black bodies in exile -- XI The case of Wendell Jean Pierre -- XII The Ghanaian revolution -- XIII The coming of Malcolm X -- XIV The return -- XV Toward my last days -- XVI The resurrection -- XVii How my heart now beats

"Here is a brilliant, provocative autobiography of a passive, overprotected Southern Negro who was shocked into self-awareness by an America he never knew and an Africa that never existed....
"Brought up in a rarefied atmosphere of Negro society ... Lacy managed, nonetheless, to break out of his cocoon and evolve from what he was to a nonviolent activist, a militant, and ultimately into a militant nationalist who settled in Ghana and became a pivotal figure in the influential Afro-American community around Nkrumah." -- from book jacket