CONTENTS

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