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The Brooks Family Tree ................... .. vi
A Few First Words ................. .. .....vii
Acknowledgments .................... . .. xi
Chapter 1. In the Beginning . .................. .1
Chapter 2. A Family EmeAgeAg .... . ............ 24
Chapter 3. A Yeau to RemembeA. ... ............ ..43
Chapter 4. Yeans oa TuAmoia: The Civia Wau. ......... 55
Chapter 5. A Church z Bon. .................. 73
Chapter 6. Lucy Found6 an Orphanage. .............. 91
Chapter 7. The Ch-idA.eon oa AfbeAt and Lucy . ........ ..103
Chapter 8. The Family Continue^. . ............. ..124
Chapter 9. About the Subtetts . . . ............ .147
Chapter 10. A. R. Brooka , Hackman and Activas.t. .........159
A Few Final Words . ... ... .. ...... .. . .. .... ..170
Appendices. Bits and Pieces. ................ .173
Sample Notes from Charlotte's Journal ...... .177
The Mysterious Cane. ............... .178
Statements Relating to Abuses of
Freedmen in Richmond ............. ..181
Articles: The Virginia Star .......... .188
Special Dispatch to the New York Tribune . . . ..194
Brochure: The Lucy Brooks Foundation ...... .204
Letter in Support of the Lucy
Brooks Foundation. ............... 210
Letter of Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D.C., Pastor
Nineteenth Street Baptist Church . ....... 213
George Lewis (b.ca. 1859) ............. 215
The Church's Last Tribute of Respect ...... .220
Correspondence Concerning Attempts
to Locate Family Grave Sites . .. ..... 227
Data About Dr. Brooks. .............. 231
The Evolution from a Slave to a
Benefactor of his Race ............. 238
Born a Slave, Pastor at 87 Has Big Church
Free of Debt ......... ....... 240
Illustrations. Brooks Family Tree. ............. .viii
Richmond Population .............. 3
Albert Brooks on Petit Jury, seated ...... 9
Lucy Goode Brooks, 1890 . . ......... 14
Frist African Baptist Church, with steeple. .. 30
Margaret Ann Brooks . . ........... 50
Turpin and Yarbrough Tobacco Company
and Plates on Front ............. 58
Albert Brooks on Petit Jury, standing ..... 65
First African Baptist Church, today ...... 74
Chronology of First African Baptist Church. .. 78
Rev. James Holmes ............... 83
Lucy Goode Brooks, Wearing Brooch With
Likeness of Albert Brooks . ......... 93
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Brooks family, African Americans Genealogy