"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 -- "Eminent Baptist divine" : the Ohio years -- Pulpit orator -- Christian endeavorer -- Race advocate -- "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 -- "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 -- "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 -- "One minister who thinks for himself" -- Shifting ground in Southern California -- The "volume 9" puzzle -- Free Seventh Day Adventists -- Reversals at the people's church -- "The people's minister" or "dangerous apostate"? -- Adventist garveyite -- The quest for broader connections -- Legacy.

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