Foreword By Donna Brazile

Introduction

I
GROWING UP
1   Early Years in Barbados
2   Back to Brooklyn
3   College Years
4   Starting in Politics

II
GETTING THERE
5   Teaching, Marriage, and the Political Arena
6   In the State Assembly
7   Running for Congress
8   Breaking the Rules

III
SPEAKING OUT
9     The Speech Against the War
10   How I View Congress
11   Facing the Abortion Question
12   The Lindsay Campaign and Coalition Politics
13   Black Politicians and the Black Minority

IV
LOOKING AHEAD
14   A Government That Cannot Hear the People
15   Women and Their Liberation
16   Youth and America's Future

Afterword By Shola Lynch