Table of Contents:
  • Notes on contributors
  • Series editor's preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of acronyms
  • Chronology
  • Introduction
  • Pt. I. Sowing seeds. 1. Foundations ; 2. Labor and civil rights
  • Pt. II. Defiance. 3. White resistance ; 4. Anticommunism, anti-civil rights
  • Pt. III. Participants. 5. Liberals and moderates ; 6. Women in the civil rights movements
  • Pt. IV. Local-national relationships. 7. The NAACP ; 8. Grassroots
  • Pt. V. Empowerment. 9. Black power and culture ; 10. Political power
  • Pt. VI. The continuing saga. 11. Environmental injustice ; 12. Affirmative action
  • Index.