Up From Nigger

New York: Stein and Day, 1976. First Edition. Octavo with blue half-cloth boards in white and blue jacket; 256 pages: illustrations; index; 24 cm A very good (+) copy with light rubbing and sunning to edges; some mild foxing to upper edge; overall clean pages and tight binding with one dog-eared page ; jacket very good (-) with sunning to spine; minor crease to upper edge of rear of jacket; several small closed tears to front of jacket and at folds; now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780812818321, 0812818326

Includes a leaflet for the 2004 4th Biennial Wholistic Health Conference in Sacramento with Dick Gregory as keynote speaker. "Dick Gregory's real-life story is far more exciting than a TV drama; he makes his own headlines. [This book] spans the decade from the mid-Sixties to the [mid-Seventies], from popular comic to campus prophet. Taking up where his million-copy seller Nigger left off, it is a hazardous, harried, and hilarious adventure. The cast of characters is varied and colorful--from Malcolm X to Mayor Daley; Martin Luther King, Jr. to Sheriff Jim Clark; Gladys Knight to Red Buttons; Bob Hope and Ed Sullivan to Bertrand Russell and Adlai Stevenson; Walter Cronkite, Tallulah Bankhead, John and Bobby Kennedy, and Barbra Streisand. The scenes span the continent and the world--Gregory in night clubs and at civil rights rallies; driving through a blizzard while being chased by armed rednecks; felled by a bullet while trying to restore order during the Watts riot; delivering 20,000 turkeys to Mississippi at Christmas; playing hide-and-seek with the CIA; fishing with the Indians; running for Mayor of Chicago and President of the United States; fasting in a jail cell; 'freeing' the Army with Jane Fonda; circling the globe in a futile effort to gain admission into Australia; collapsing during the Boston Marathon but running the 800-mile distance from Chicago to Washington, D.C., two years later. Dick Gregory tells it all with zest and unfailing spirit. The comedian-crusader has kept and burnished his wit--his most powerful weapon in his unending battle for human rights and personal evolution 'Up From Nigger.' James R. Mcgraw, who collaborated with Dick Gregory on Up From Nigger, shared many of these adventures."--Dust jacket

Contents: The White House and my emancipation. The stars and the starter's pistol. We had sown the wind. Making room in the inn. School days in New York City. Lillian-tegration. The World's Fair stall-in. Easin' on down the road uneasily. Cooling crowds and watermelons. From Moscow to murder. Nonconventional conventioneering. Arlington revisited. Merry Christmas from the Colonel!. One crazy nigger. Our shining black prince. From the big apple to the bloodbath. The month of (the) march. My kind of town. Chicago is?. Watts happening, baby?. Denting the machine. Who's who???. Sole power. Al Lingo revisited. Marching against fear. Ho ho ho Hanoi. Taking on Massa Daley. Marching in Milwaukee. Farewell to food. Kicking the computer. An administration in exile. The My Lai caper. Thanks for the memories. Around the world in twenty-six days. Freeing the army. The last mile. Chasing after famine. Comedy and conspiracy. Skipping Christmas dinner. Notes: Includes index.