Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Which Treats the New Century in the New Nation & a Couple of Movers & Shakers Who Shake & Move It -- 2 Which Treats of the Station in Life & the Pursuits of the Famous Colored Gentleman, Booker T. Washington, & His Sally to Break Bread with President Theodore Roosevelt TR, & That Meal's Aftermath -- Interlude 1 -- 3 Which Treats of "The Great Negro Educator's" Sally along the Avenue -- Frederick Douglass -- Interlude 2 -- 4 Wherein Are Related Matters Trifling & Historic, Lame-Brained & Etymological, Relating to Jim Crow & His Formidable Rise -- Interlude 3 -- 5 Which Treats of the Last Stop of the Montgomery & West Point Railroad before BT's Return to Tuskegee, & Philosophical/Political Musings on Music & Time Travel -- Interlude 4 -- Interlude 5 -- Interlude 6 -- 6 Which Treats of George Washington Carver (1864-1943, Inventor, Tuskegee Professor) -- Invent, Inventor, Inventing & Polaris -- Interlude 7 -- Interlude 8 -- 7 Of the Migration Blues, Ship of Fools & State, & Moving on Up with Moving on Up -- Interlude 9 -- 8 Of a Booker T. Ditty, & an Imagined Want Ad -- 9 In Which Is Related the Unfortunate Adventure That Befalls Booker T. When He Encounters Certain Wicked Upstarts in Boston -- Interlude 10 -- 10 On Niagara Falls, Brownsville, Atlanta, & Newton's 3rd Revisited, + TIP & TILT -- 11 Flashback c. 1903. Which treats of Hollywood's 1st flicker -- Seeking Freedom -- Opposites Attracting -- Fair Usage -- Uncle Tom -- Syncretism -- & Attempted Unions -- 12 Of Use, Used -- The Clansman -- Interacting Entities & Denial of Influences -- Berlin -- Picasso -- Abbott & Costello -- & the Loas Showing Up -- Interlude 11.

13 1909. An Arctic Episode in Which Is Related the Frigid Adventure of Matthew Henson When, in the Era of White Hopes, He Stands on Top of the World. & in Which Mr. Johnson Meets Mr. Burns under the Sharp Eye & Pen of Mr. London -- 14 Of What Happens (in a Tuskegee Senior's Daydreams) When the Galveston Stevedore Meets the Tuskegee Wizard -- 15 1909-1910. Treats of the Blues, Black Movies, & NAACP Coming into Focus as Whitefolks Act Ugly, Puff, Pow -- 16 In Which Is Related the Unfortunate Adventure That Befalls Mr. Jeffries When He Encounters 2-Fisted Mr. Johnson . . . & Other Unlooked-for Happenings -- 17 1912-1914. In Which Woodrow Wilson, Jack Johnson, & James Reese Europe Figure . . . & Other Unsought Happenings -- 18 1913-1914. In Which the Smart Money Was Still Not in Coon Futures . . . William Monroe Trotter Confronts Woodrow Wilson, & Other Unpleasant Matters That Deserve to Be Recorded -- 19 Of D. W. Griffith -- 20 Which Treats, circa 1911, of Trust & Fulfillment, & the First Sally that Booker T. Takes to View the Ingenious Work of D.W. -- 21 Of Potential, Energy, Counterweight, Counterbalance, Elevator, & Booker T. Going Up the Shaft & Down Again -- 22 Which Treats of the Stations in Life & Pursuits of the Famous Southern Gentlemen, Masters Griffith & Dixon, & of What Happens When They Sally Forth in Their Twin Tiltings Against the Windmills Obstructing Their U-turn to & Recapturing of Their Imagined Age of Chivalry ("Over-Reaching Themselves" in That Regard, as Sister Ida B. Wells Will Soon Signify) -- & Other Events That Deserve to be Suitably Recorded -- 23 Of What Happens When Birth of a Nation Comes to Tuskegee -- 24 Wherein Is Related the Rush of Defenders to Griffith's Defense . . . Along with Other Events to Do with Mr. Mayer -- 25 Is Devoted to a Description of BT's Final Sally.

His Homecoming, His Last Encounter with His Arch Nemesis, & His Last Considerations & Reconsiderations -- Interlude 12 -- Interlude 13 -- 26 Of Eulogies, in Which Mrs. Wells & Mr. Du Bois Have the Final Word -- After Words.