Prologue: a purposeful life
A midwestern childhood
Education: the first measure of independence
Teaching in the segregated south
Heading north to spread the word: the YWCA years
Harlem and Brooklyn in the great depression
World War II: a time for racial justice
Fighting for fair employment, fighting for Truman
"New world citizen": developing a national portfolio, an international consciousness, and an FBI file
Running for office
"A burr in the saddle": Anna Arnold Hedgeman, white protestants, and the March on Washington
The "double handicap of race and sex": African American women and the March on Washington
The Commission on Religion and Race
Moving the justice fight north
Black power, woman power
Refusing retirement: the Hedgeman Consultant Service
Epilogue: fighting for heaven, right here on earth.