CONTENTS
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
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
NINE The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
TEN The Sit-Ins and the Founding of SNCC
ELEVEN The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
THIRTEEN Kennedy and Civil Rights, 1961
FOURTEEN Albany, Georgia, 1961
FIFTEEN Mississippi Voter Registration
SEVENTEEN Mississippi, Medgar Evers, and the Civil Rights Bill
EIGHTEEN The March on Washington
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