Waiting in line at the drugstore : and other writings of James Thomas Jackson /
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Denton :
University of North Texas Press,
1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / June Acosta
- Foreword / David Westheimer
- Introduction / Charles Champlin
- pt. I. Essays and Articles. Waiting in Line at the Drugstore. Once Upon a Time in Houston. Of Roses and a Black Family's Unusual Visitor. Terry and Me. On Learning Values, and People. Juneteenth Was Freedom Day
- A Long Time Ago. Hopeth All Things. In Search of Country. Wheel in the Midst of a Wheel. Once I Crossed the Rubicon. On Faith and Being "Born Again" The Burning of the Books. Looking Back
- and Ahead. Awakening to a Common Suffering
- and Pride. My Africa
- It is All This, and More. Black Friday: The Day Kennedy Was Shot. Welfare and the Single Man. Not a Bad Dude. Watts Workshop: From the Ashes. Some Notes on the Frederick Douglass Writers' House. Stars in a Black Night
- Beacon for a Black Dawn. Ned Bobkoff and Me. Wadsworth
- pt. II. Fiction and Poetry. Fiction (Chapters from the unpublished novel "Shade of Darkness"). Gasthaus. The Party. Reveille. Shade of Darkness. Caravansary. Corporal Willoughby's "Waw" Heavyweight. Poetry. Jean. Blues for Black. Poem from the Temple of My Mind. Coda ... #1. Coda ... #2. Daybreak. Poem for Medgar Evers. The Breadwinner. Michael Powe: Epitaph to a Beautiful Person. Watts ... '68. Excerpts from Bye, Bye, Black Sheep (Play). Act I, Scene 1. Act II, Scene 2.