This book is broken down into eleven thought-provoking chapters. In the introduction, The Meeting of Martin and Malcolm, Cone looks at the first and only time they met in Washington, D.C. on March 26, 1964. They saw each other clearly as co-freedom fighters, struggling against racism. Cone then moves on to an analysis of Integrationism and Nationalism in African-American intellectual history. This section is important because unless you have an understanding of these two trains of thought, you will not understand either Martin or Malcolm.
Cone juxtaposes each subsequent chapter as a parallel development of their lives.
White Man's Heaven Is A Black Man's Hell and so on. It is a very interesting way to set up the chapters, particularly since Cone does so much in the book to dispel the myth that they were always on opposite sides of the coin. But the white American press bears sole responsibility for not accurately reporting how their views were in a constant state of change. They reported only those things that made Malcolm look irresponsible, and Martin pleasing to the white masses. Now they've been making a lot of studies about the Negro, about the ghetto, about slums.