Reflections on black history
By: by Thomas Fleming.
Contributors: Millard, Max.
Publisher: The Free Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [S.l. ]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Fleming, Thomas C., -- 1907-; African American journalists -- Biography.; African Americans -- History.; African Americans -- California -- History.; California -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: "[Max] Millard worked closely with Fleming for two years at the Sun-Reporter and later spent 100 hours interviewing him on tape, transcribing the material, doing the fact-checking, and blending it with Fleming's original writings. Fleming did the final editing, and all the words are his."

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Printed from the Free Press website Dec. 2005.
Table of contents: value: Jacksonville, 1907-15; value: Black entertainers on vaudeville; value: A stowaway to New York; value: Boyhood in Harlem, 1916-19; value: Marcus Garvey comes to Harlem; value: Encounters with Fats Waller; value: The rise of black professionals; value: Mischief-making in Harlem; value: Goodbye to New York; value: West to California; value: Black life in rural California; value: Why the black press is still needed; value: Race relations in a small California town; value: Jim Crow in 1920s California; value: Good times in Chico; value: The Klan marches in California; value: The black press in the 1920s; value: The day President Harding died; value: Black musicians and early radio; value: The great experiment; value: A potential race riot; value: California's first black politicians; value: The agricultural life; value: The color line; value: My mother, the domestic; value: A jack of all trades; value: Job discrimination in the '20s; value: To the future; value: Burned out; value: Back to the city; value: Finding work; value: The Admiral Line; value: On the S.S. Emma Alexander; value: Stopover in Seattle; value: Ships of the world; value: Los Angeles Bound; value: Last days on shipboard; value: The railroad ferry; value: Oakland, where the trains stopped; value: The Southern Pacific; value: Fourth cook on a railroad diner; value: Joining the union; value: The San Joaquin Flyer; value: Racial attitudes on the railroad; value: Phil Randolph and the Pullman porters; value: Misadventures on the railroad; value: The glory days of travel; value: C.L. Dellums and Mr. Bojangles; value: On to Chicago; value: Duke Ellington; value: Riding the freights; value: Job status on the railroad; value: Return to L.A.; value: Deadheading to Portland; value: An incident in Reno; value: A different world; value: Getting by on the railroad; value: The Depression begins; value: Getting an education; value: Black fraternities and sororities; value: Separate but equal; value: Senator Billy Knowland; value: Enrolling in college; value: A lynching in San Jose; value: Herbert Hoover and black Republicans; value: The Great Strike of 1934; value: Langston Hughes comes west; value: Black Communists in the 1930s; value: Surviving the Depression; value: Sargent Johnson and the bohemian life; value: Working for the WPA; value: Langston Hughes goes to Russia; value: "Raincoat" Jones, black businessman extraordinaire; value: Entertainment during the Depression; value: Italy invades Africa; value: Blacks and the labor movement; value: Black attorneys and California politics; value: Carlton B. Goodlett, champion of the people; value: A party for Jesse Owens; value: Rebels in the NAACP; value: Black boxing champions; value: Black society in the '30s; value: Lionel Hampton, King of the Vibes; value: The Black Cabinet; value: The National Negro Congress of 1936; value: International House; value: Black radio entertainers.