Introduction : the stormy present -- The new majority -- The beer can in the cotton patch -- The problem of identification -- Civil rights and self-improvement -- Lost and found : Africa and the Negro past -- Power, personality, and protest -- The cat with the silver spoon -- The Negro and the school -- The revolt against "welfare colonialism."
Summary
Posits that the United States must solve "the Negro Problem" out of more than political self-interest; it must accept the Negro as an equal and participating member of society because it is the only right thing, the only decent thing, to do.
