Ballou High School

An inner city public high school in Southeast Washington, D.C.

Spiritual Cathedral

Church to which Cedric and his mother Barbara both belong. The head pastor is Bishop Long.

Brown University

One of the "Ivy League" colleges, located in Providence, Rhode Island

Andrews Hall

The dormitory at Brown in which Cedric spends his freshman year.

M.I. T.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the site of a summer program for minority students which Cedric attends between his junior and senior years.

Harambee House

All-black dormitory at Brown University

Slater Junior High School

A school in the inner city of Providence and site of Cedric's educational field experience during his freshman year.

Lorton Corectional Institution

Site of Cedric's father's incarceration in Washington, D.C.

Billboard

The Brown University student newspaper

House on 15th Street

A clapboard house in southeast Washington, D.C. in which Barbara was...