Introduction | p. 8 |
Timeline of Key Events, 1954-1968 | p. 11 |
Asa Philip Randolph: (1889-1979) Union Leader and Organizer | p. 17 |
Charles Hamilton Houston: (1895-1950) Chief Legal Counsel for the NAACP | p. 21 |
Septima Poinsette Clark: (1898-1987) Civil Rights Activist and Educator | p. 25 |
Zephaniah Alexander Looby: (1899-1972) Attorney | p. 29 |
Edgar Daniel Nixon: (1899-1987) Civil Rights Activist, Alabama | p. 33 |
Modjeska Monteith Simkins: (1899-1992) Civil Rights Activist, South Carolina | p. 36 |
Roy Wilkins: (1901-1981) Journalist and Executive Secretary of the NAACP | p. 40 |
Ella Josephine Baker: (1903-1986) Executive Director of the SCLC and Leader of the SNCC | p. 43 |
Myles Horton: (1905-1990) Founder of the Highlander Folk School | p. 47 |
Thurgood Marshall: (1908-1993) U.S. Supreme Court Justice | p. 51 |
Clarence Mitchell Jr.: (1911-1984) Lawyer and Lobbyist | p. 55 |
Amzie Moore: (1911-1982) Civil Rights Activist, Mississippi | p. 59 |
Isaiah DeQuincey Newman: (1911-1985) Civil Rights Activist, South Carolina | p. 63 |
Bayard Taylor Rustin: (1912-1987) Cofounder of the SCLC | p. 66 |
Daisy Bates: (1914-1999) Friend and Adviser to the Little Rock Nine | p. 70 |
Fannie Lou Hamer: (1917-1977) Civil Rights Activist and Cofounder of the MFDP | p. 75 |
James Leonard Farmer Jr.: (1920-1999) Civil Rights Leader, Cofounder of CORE | p. 79 |
Dr. Joseph Lowery: (1921-) Civil Rights Activist, Alabama | p. 84 |
Constance Baker Motley: (1921-2005) Attorney, Politician, Federal Judge | p. 87 |
Avon Nyanza Williams Jr.: (1921-1994) Attorney | p. 90 |
Fred Lee Shuttlesworth: (1922-) Civil Rights Leader, Cofounder of the SCLC | p. 94 |
Ernest C. Withers: (1922-) Photographer | p. 97 |
Aaron Henry: (1922-1997) Civil Rights Leader, Mississippi | p. 100 |
Charles Evers: (1922-) Civil Rights Activist, Mississippi | p. 104 |
Mae Bertha Carter: (1923-1999) Civil Rights Activist, Mississippi | p. 107 |
Cordy Tindell Vivian: (1924-) Civil Rights Activist, Tennessee | p. 111 |
Medgar Evers: (1925-1963) Civil Rights Leader | p. 114 |
Malcolm Little, a.k.a. Malcoln X, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz: (1925-1965) Civil Rights Leader | p. 119 |
Ralph Abernathy: (1926-1990) Civil Rights Leader | p. 124 |
Hosea Williams: (1926-2000) Civil Rights Activist and Organizer | p. 127 |
Harold "Harry" George Belafonte Jr.: (1927-) Singer, Actor, Producer, Activist, and Humanitarian | p. 131 |
Coretta Scott King: (1927-2006) First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement | p. 135 |
James Lawson: (1928-) Civil Rights Leader | p. 139 |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: (1929-1968) Civil Rights Leader | p. 143 |
Dorothy Foreman Cotton: (c. 1931-) Civil Rights Leader, Educator | p. 149 |
Richard "Dick" Claxton Gregory: (1932-) Comedian, Civil Rights Activist, Author | p. 152 |
Andrew Jackson Young Jr.: (1932-) Civil Rights Leader | p. 156 |
Unita Blackwell: (1933-) Civil Rights Leader, Mississippi | p. 159 |
Walter Fauntroy: (1933-) Civil Rights Activist and Lobbyist | p. 163 |
James Meredith: (1933-) Civil Rights Activist, Mississippi | p. 167 |
Myrlie Evers-Williams: (1933-) Civil Rights Leader | p. 171 |
Robert "Bob" Moses: (1935-) Civil Rights Activist, Organizer, and Educator | p. 174 |
Marion Shepilov Barry Jr.: (1936-) Civil Rights Leader, Politician | p. 177 |
Dr. James Luther Bevel: (1936-) Civil Rights Leader | p. 181 |
Diane Nash: (1938-) Civil Rights Activist, Tennessee | p. 186 |
Horace Julian Bond: (1940-) Civil Rights Leader and Journalist | p. 190 |
John R. Lewis: (1940-) Civil Rights Leader, Politician | p. 194 |
James Zwerg: (1940-) Civil Rights Activist | p. 198 |
Stokely Carmichael, a.k.a. Kwame Toure: (1941-1998) Civil Rights Leader | p. 202 |
Jesse Louis Jackson Sr.: (1941-) Civil Rights Leader, Politician | p. 206 |
Emmett Till: (1941-1955) Innocent Victim | p. 210 |
Dr. James Edward Orange: (1942-) Civil Rights Activist, Alabama | p. 214 |
Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon: (1942-) Civil Rights Activist, Singer, Composer, and Scholar | p. 217 |
The Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: (1955) Jo Ann Robinson, Claudette Colvin, and Rosa Parks | p. 221 |
The Greensboro Four: (1960) Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr., and David Richmond | p. 226 |
The Freedom Rides: (1961) | p. 230 |
Freedom Summer: (1964) | p. 235 |
From Selma to Montgomery: Marching for the Vote: (1965) | p. 240 |
The Martyrs of the Orangeburg Massacre: (1968) Henry Smith, Samuel Hammond Jr., DeLano Middleton, and Cleveland Sellers | p. 244 |
The Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike: (1968) | p. 248 |
Resurrection City and the Poor People's Campaign: (1968) | p. 253 |
More Extraordinary People of the Civil Rights Movement | p. 257 |
Glossary | p. 268 |
To Find Out More | p. 272 |
Index | p. 279 |
About the Authors | p. 288 |