A Day for Very Great Things

A Day for Very Great Things  (2023)  by Earl Redman and Erica Toussaint

Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction
2. Howard Colby Ives, the Early Years
3. Howard Meets the Master and Is Transformed
4. Finding His Way
5. Mabel Rice-Wray, the Early Years
6. Howard and Mabel Get Married
7. A New Plan of Action and the Beginnings of a Life of Sacrifice: 1920-1925
8. Spiritual Struggles and Tests
9. Race Unity Work: 1926-1931
10. Howard Breaks Down
11. Early 1932
12. Howard’s Weekly ‘Hakouk’ Letters: January-March 1932
13. Travel Teaching and a Boarding House
14. Howard Discovers His Writing Skills
15. Howard Writes Portals to Freedom
16. The Song Celestial
17. Howard’s Other Literary Work
18. Opening the Seven Year Plan: 1936-1937
19. Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada: 1937
20. Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Chicago: 1938
21. Back in Canada: 1938-1939
22. Memphis and Howard’s Declining Health
23. Further Afield in the American South: 1940-1941
24. The End of Howard's Physical Road: 1941
25. Mabel Soldiers on in the South: 1941-1943
26. Mabel Joins Howard

Epilogue: Lives Well Lived

Appendices

1. Two Talks by Howard Colby Ives
2. Two Talks by Mabel Rice-Wray Ives

Bibliography
Notes and References
Index