Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- Simple Stakes a Claim (1957) -- Contents -- Foreword: Let's Laugh a Little -- Simple Stakes a Claim -- Simple's Platform -- Bang-up Big End -- Big Round World -- Duty Is Not Snooty -- Great but Late -- Bones, Bombs, Chicken Necks -- A Dog Named Trilby -- Enter Cousin Minnie -- Radioactive Red Caps -- Face and Race -- Two Sides Not Enough -- Great Day -- With All Deliberate Speed -- Puerto Ricans -- Depression in the Cards -- The Atomic Age -- Minnie Again -- Sketch for TV -- Sex in Front -- Out-loud Silent -- Color on the Brain -- New Kind of Dozens -- Vicious Circle -- Jim Crow's Funeral -- Again Cousin Minnie -- Cellophane Bandannas -- Negroes and Vacations -- Only Human -- Name in Print -- Golfing and Goofing -- Reason and Right -- Mississippi Fists -- Minnie One More Time -- Simple Stashes Back -- An Auto-Obituary -- Four-Way Celebrations -- Be Broad-minded, Please! -- Grammar and Goodness -- Chips on the Shoulder -- Jazz, Jive and Jam -- Simple's Uncle Sam (1965) -- Contents -- Simple's Uncle Sam -- Census -- Swinging High -- Contest -- Empty Houses -- The Blues -- God's Other Side -- Color Problems -- The Moon -- Domesticated -- Bomb Shelters -- Gospel Singers -- Nothing but a Dog -- Roots and Trees -- For President -- Atomic Dream -- Lost Wife -- Self-Protection -- Haircuts and Paris -- Adventure -- Minnie's Hype -- Yachts -- Ladyhood -- Coffee Break -- Lynn Clarisse -- Interview -- Simply Simple -- Golden Gate -- Junkies -- Dog Days -- Pose-outs -- Soul Food -- Flay or Pray? -- Not Colored -- Cracker Prayer -- Rude Awakening -- Miss Boss -- Dr. Sidesaddle -- Wigs for Freedom -- Concernment -- Statutes and Statues -- American Dilemma -- Promulgations -- How Old Is Old? -- Weight in Gold -- Sympathy -- Uncle Sam -- Uncollected Stories -- Remembrances.

Wigs, Women, and Falsies -- On Women Who Drink You Up -- Hairdos -- Cousin Minnie Wins -- Riddles -- Color of the Law -- Simple and the High Prices -- Everybody's Difference -- Intermarriage -- Liberals Need a Mascot -- Serious Talk about the Atom Bomb -- Brainwashed -- Help, Mayor, Help! -- Little Klanny -- Simple's Psychosis -- Pictures -- Simple Arithmetic -- Africa's Daughters -- African Names -- Harems and Robes -- Money and Mice -- Population Explosion -- Youthhood -- Hail and Farewell -- Notes -- Index of Titles.