Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Go preach to your people -- From West Dedham to Wayland Seminary -- Pastor to Minnesota's Black pilgrims -- Social center for a proscribed people -- For progress and strength -- Early struggles for civil rights -- Part II: Eminent Baptist divine : the Ohio years -- Pulpit orator -- Christian endeavorer -- Race advocate -- Part III: This message for all my people -- Obedient to present truth -- Into the South -- Mission to the talented tenth -- Is there a place in this message for the Negro with the white man? -- Camp Nelson, school plans, and South Carolina -- The 1901 general conference and an uncertain aftermath -- Part IV: Noted apostle of Seventh-Day adventism -- A new faith in the Nation's Capital -- The Daniells plan -- From Nashville to Washington, via Des Moines -- Thousands hear him -- Color line drawn between Adventists -- At the center of Black culture -- The right mold for Washington -- To stand united before the world -- Delicate harmony and renewed opportunity -- The people's church : profound possibilities and hard questions -- Part V: The separation was a sad mistake -- Confrontation over racial injustice -- The people's church declares independence -- Stop right where you are -- Equivocal freedom -- Reconciliation initiatives -- A marriage and an olive branch -- Return from Midian -- Part VI: One minister who thinks for himself -- Shifting ground in Southern California -- The volume nine puzzle -- Free Seventh Day Adventists -- Reversals at the people's church -- The people's minister or dangersous apostate -- Adventist garveyite -- The quest for broader connections -- Legacy.