Table of Contents for I Never Had It Made : An Autobiography

Foreword

ix

Cornel West

Introduction

xiii

Hank Aaron

Preface: Today

xix

Jackie Robinson

THE NOBLE EXPERIMENT

A Dream Deferred

3

(23)

The Noble Experiment

26

(12)

Breaking the Color Barrier

38

(16)

The Major Leagues

54

(18)

``Just Another Guy''

72

(7)

My Own Man

79

(9)

The Price of Popularity

88

(16)

The Growing Family

104

(12)

The Ninth Inning

116

(9)

AFTER THE BALL GAME

New Horizons

125

(10)

Campaigning for Nixon

135

(6)

The Hall of Fame Award

141

(4)

Conflict at the Apollo

145

(6)

Crises at Home

151

(11)

On Being Black Among the Republicans

162

(14)

Differences with Malcolm X

176

(7)

The Freedom Bank

183

(15)

Hope and Disillusionment in White Politics

198

(12)

The Influence of Martin Luther King, Jr.

210

(7)

Jackie's Prison

217

(18)

Politics Today

235

(7)

``...And He Was Free''

242

(14)

Aftermath

256

(9)

Epilogue

265