Preface / by Pam Horowitz -- Introduction: What Julian Bond taught me / by Jeanne Theoharis -- Introduction / by Julian Bond -- White supremacy and the founding of the NAACP -- Origins of the civil rights movement -- World War II -- President Truman and the road to Brown -- Brown v. Board of Education -- The Montgomery bus boycott -- The 1956 presidential election and the 1957 Civil Rights Act -- Little Rock, 1957 -- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- The sit-ins and the founding of SNCC -- The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- The freedom rides -- Kennedy and civil rights, 1961 -- Albany, Georgia, 1961 -- Mississippi voter registration -- Birmingham -- Mississippi, Medgar Evers, and the civil rights bill -- The March on Washington -- The Civil Rights Act -- 1964 Mississippi freedom dummer -- Selma, Alabama, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act -- Vietnam, black power, and the assassination of Martin Luther King -- Afterword: We are in need of shaking / by Vann R. Newkirk II.
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