Trailblazer: a pioneering journalist's fight to make the media look more like America

Coming to The Washington Post, 1961

Assignment: Mississippi, 1962

Growing up a preacher's kid, 1936-1961

Being Mrs. Sam Gilliam, 1962-1982

Return to The Washington Post/The style years and founding the Institute for Journalism Education, 1972-1979

Voice for the voiceless: The Column and National Association of Black Jounalists Years, 1979-1997

Last years at The Washington Post: is there anything else you want to do? 1998-2003

Epilogue.