Includes bibliographical references (pages 665-670)
Contents:
"I wanted the whole world to see" / Emmett Till, 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, 1955-1956: "Like a revival starting" Little Rock crisis, 1957-1958: "I had cracked the wall" Student sit-ins in Nashville, 1960: "Badge of honor" Freedom rides, 1961: "Sticks and bricks" Albany, Georgia, 1961-1962: "Mother lode" James Meredith enters Ole Miss, 1962: "Things would never be the same" Birmingham, 1963: "Something has got to change" Organizing in Mississippi, 1961-1963: "The reality of what we were doing hit me" March on Washington, 1963: "They voted with their feet" Sixteenth Street Church bombing, 1963: "You realized how intense the opposition was" Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964: "Representation and the right to participate" Selma, 1965: "Troopers, advance" Malcolm X (1925-1965): "Our own black shining prince!" Lowndes County Freedom Organization, 1965-1966: "Vote for the Panther, then go home" Meredith march, 1966: "Hit them now" Chicago, 1966: "Chicago was a symbol" Muhammad Ali, 1964-1967: "I am the greatest" King and Vietnam, 1965-1967: "His philosophy made it impossible not to take a stand" Birth of the Black Panthers, 1966-1967: "We wanted control" Detroit, 1967: "Inside most black people there was a time bomb" Election of Carl Stokes: "We had to be organized" Howard University, 1967-1968: "You saw the silhouette of her Afro" King's last crusade: "We've got some difficult days ahead" Resurrection City, 1968: "The end of a major battle" Ocean Hill-Brownsville, 1967-1968: "Everything became more political" Black Panthers, 1968-1969: "How serious and deadly the game" Attica and prisoners' rights, 1971: "There's always time to die" Gary convention, 1972: "Unity without uniformity" Busing in Boston, 1974-1976: "As if some alien was coming into the school" Atlanta and affirmative action, 1973-1980: "Politics of inclusion" Epilogue: From Miami to America's future
