CONTENTS

PART ONE:

First Cry

CHAPTER ONE:

Jim Crow and the Detested Number Ten

CHAPTER TWO:

Coot

CHAPTER THREE:

“We Seemed to Hate Ourselves”

CHAPTER FOUR:

“It’s My Constitutional Right!”

CHAPTER FIVE:

“There’s the Girl Who Got Arrested”

CHAPTER SIX:

“Crazy” Times

CHAPTER SEVEN:

“Another Negro Woman Has Been Arrested”

CHAPTER EIGHT:

Second Front, Second Chance

PART TWO:

Playing for Keeps

CHAPTER NINE:

Browder v. Gayle

CHAPTER TEN:

Rage in Montgomery

EPILOGUE:

History’s Door

AUTHOR’S NOTE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PICTURE CREDITS

INDEX