Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PREFACE: Fear of a Black and "Red" President -- INTRODUCTION: Cold War Civil Rights and Cultural Rhetoric Studies -- CHAPTER ONE: Un-American Schooling: Anticommunist Discourse and Martin Luther King Jr. -- CHAPTER TWO: Essaying to Be an Exile: Richard Wright Following The God That Failed -- CHAPTER THREE: Writing Congress: The Appeal of C. L. R. James's American Studies -- CHAPTER FOUR: Black Is Red All Over Again: President Obama's Father Figure Frank Marshall Davis -- CONCLUSION: Back to the Billboard: The Long Civil Rights Movement Still -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.