Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Margaret Walker
  • Introduction / Michele Furst
  • Picturing the black experience and framing the civil rights photography of Ernest C. Withers / Ronald W. Bailey
  • The Emmett Till murder trial, Sumner, Mississippi, 1955
  • School desegregation, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957
  • Memphis, Tennessee in the 1950s and 60s
  • Voter registration and the Tent City protest, Fayette County, Tennessee, 1960
  • James Meredith and the Mississippi Campaign, 1962 and 1966
  • Medgar Evers, 1925-1963
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, 1955
  • Sanitation Workers' Strike, Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
  • Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memphis, Tennessee, April 4, 1968
  • Poor People's Campaign, Marks, Mississippi and Washington, DC, 1968
  • Afterword / Ronald W. Bailey
  • Bibliography.