Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the soul of change
  • section 1. The weight. I am a man / Jesse Epps
  • A dream is a good place to start / Endesha Holland
  • King of the blues / B.B. King
  • Twisted steel and sex appeal / Sputnik Monroe
  • Gentleman of the press / Vernon Jarrett
  • Skin dive / Dr. Sammy Lee
  • American Gandhi / James Lawson
  • The birth of Elvis / Jim Dickinson
  • The jump-off point / Jerome Smith
  • "Like little tortures each day" / Carol Swann-Daniels
  • section 2. We shall not be moved. A blinding flash opened our eyes / Carolyn McKinstry
  • Justice never sleeps / William Baxley
  • The veil of amnesia / Diane McWhorter
  • Heaven can wait / Joseph Lowery
  • Cracking the system / Raylawni Branch
  • Louisiana moon / Maurice Landrieu
  • Wake up, Washington! / Rachelle Horowitz
  • The brutal truth / Karl Fleming
  • Mother courage / Carolyn Goodman
  • Hour of power / Alvin Poussaint
  • Love story in black and white / Constancia Romilly
  • Hard-wired for freedom / Heather Booth
  • Help from on high / Curtis Graves
  • At history's elbow / Samuel Kyles
  • section 3. The wings of the future. Founding sisters / Susan Brownmiller
  • Unprincipled principal / Jose Angel Gutierrez
  • Shooting for big fish / Diane Wilson
  • Wheels of progress / Michelle Steger
  • Threads in the civil rights quilt / Barney Frank
  • Rewriting the lies / Suzan Harjo
  • The Latino underground railroad / John Fife
  • A more perfect union / Tawanda Murray
  • A living hope / Eugene Rivers
  • Afterword / Marion Wright Edelman.