Dr. Hamilton uses a format of a series of vignettes to describe his life is Chicago. His activity in the civil rights movement and his co-authorship of the book, Black Power, with Stokely Carmichael.
The book details the life of "Free Frank" McWorter, who was an ex-slave from Kentucky and how he created the Illinois town of New Philadelphia in 1839 near Hannibal, Missouri. New Philadelph
