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