Table of Contents:
  • Letter : the Uhuru Sasa School
  • Rejection of European rule with a demand for independence / Patrice Lumumba
  • The spook who sat by the door / Sam Greenlee
  • Martial arts [coloring pages]
  • 3 poems / Sonia Sanchez, E. McQueen
  • The nature of the Mau-Mau movement / Waruhiu Itote
  • When the stones were soft : East African fireside tales / Eleanor B. Heady
  • Independent Africa / Wilfred Cartey & Martin Kilson
  • The mis-education of the Negro [excerpt] / Carter G. Woodson
  • Equal pay for equal work [tale] / Houghton Mifflin
  • Guidelines to Swahili
  • Malcolm X on Afro-American history
  • How to be a good pollitical organizer / James Forman
  • Chattel slavery
  • H. Rap raps / [H. Rap Brown]
  • A mother's love-- a mainliner's lesson / by Wallace White
  • Frank [comic strip] / by Carolyn Thompson
  • The ragtime roots of jazz / James Weldon Johnson
  • The war years [Civil War] / Earl Conrad
  • Survival
  • Fables from Aesops [sic] / James Reeves
  • Let's unite = Unámonos / by Irma Ramos