Foreword—by Pam Horowitz
Introduction: What Julian Bond Taught Me—by Jeanne Theoharis
Introduction to the Course—by Julian Bond
ONE
White Supremacy and the Founding of the NAACP
TWO
Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
THREE
World War II
FOUR
President Truman and the road to Brown
FIVE
Brown v. Board of Education
SIX
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
SEVEN
The 1956 Presidential Election and the 1957 Civil Rights Act
EIGHT
Little Rock, 1957
NINE
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
TEN
The Sit-Ins and the Founding of SNCC
ELEVEN
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
TWELVE
The Freedom Rides
THIRTEEN
Kennedy and Civil Rights, 1961
FOURTEEN
Albany, Georgia, 1961
FIFTEEN
Mississippi Voter Registration
SIXTEEN
Birmingham
SEVENTEEN
Mississippi, Medgar Evers, and the Civil Rights Bill
EIGHTEEN
The March on Washington
NINETEEN
The Civil Rights Act
TWENTY
Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964
TWENTY-ONE
Selma, Alabama, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act
TWENTY-TWO
Vietnam, Black Power, and the Assassination of Martin Luther King
Afterword: We Are in Need of Shaking—by Vann R. Newkirk II
Acknowledgments
Annotated Bibliography—by Julian Bond
Recommended Readings
Notes
Index