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Waiting in Line at the Drugstore and Other Writings of James Thomas Jackson
Collected by June Acosta Introduction by Charles Champlin Foreword by David Westheimer
Page iv
University of North Texas Press 1993
All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jackson, James Thomas, 19251985. Waiting in line at the drugstore : and other writings of James Thomas Jackson / collected by June Acosta ; introduction by Charles Champlin ; foreword by David Westheimer. p. cm. ISBN 0-929398-50-5 (pbk.) : $16.95.ISBN 0-929398-62-9 : $29.95 1. Afro-AmericansLiterary collections. 2. Afro-AmericansSocial conditions. I. Acosta, June. II. Title. PS3560.A21574W3 1993 305,896'073dc20 93-32763 CIP
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So I am Home. As the naked failure. With rhetorical dreams of Emerson, Whitman and Mr. Sandburg. Home, partner, with a head full of Blithe, embroidered hopes and fountain Springs of books to be. Home, man, still, to a religious faith ... In shoes with well-worn soles ... James Thomas Jackson From an unpublished poem "Earthville"
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CONTENTS
Preface
June Acosta
ix
Foreword
David Westheimer
xi
Introduction
Charles Champlin
xv
Part I Essays and Articles
Waiting in Line at the Drugstore
3
Once Upon a Time in Houston
7
Of Roses and a Black Family's Unusual Visitor
11
Terry and Me
15
On Learning Values, and People
23
Juneteenth Was Freedom DayA Long Time Ago
29
Hopeth All Things
32
In Search of Country
46
Wheel in the Midst of a Wheel
54
Once I Crossed the Rubicon
59
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On Faith and Being "Born Again"
74
The Burning of the Books
78
Looking Backand Ahead
85
Awakening to a Common Sufferingand Pride
89
My AfricaIt is All This, and More
92
Black Friday: The Day Kennedy Was Shot
96
Welfare and the Single Man
104
Not a Bad Dude
111
Watts Workshop: From the Ashes
114
Some Notes on the Frederick Douglass Writers' House
120
Stars in a Black NightBeacon for a Black Dawn
128
Ned Bobkoff and Me
133
Wadsworth
147
Part II Fiction and Poetry
Fiction (Chapters from the unpublished novel "Shade of Darkness")
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