New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1964). Hardcover first edition - The first book by this African-American civil rights leader, politician, educator, and writer, an autobiography which tells of a lifetime of activism (not just in civil rights but also for women (as one of the co-founders of NOW) and in religion) through the 1963 March on Washington, where she was the only woman among the organizers - it was public her statement to Randolph and the others that it was incredible that no woman would appear among the speakers which led to the small victory of Daisy Bates "asked to say a few words" - but as Hedgeman commented "we grinned some of us but we recognized anew that Negro women are second-class citizens in our culture." 202 pp.