Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-355) and index.

Preface / by Pam Horowitz -- Introduction: What Julian Bond Taught Me / by Jeanne Theoharis -- Introduction / by Julian Bond -- White Supremacy and the Founding of the NAACP -- Origins of the Civil Rights Movement -- World War II -- President Truman and the Road to Brown -- Brown v. Board of Education -- The Montgomery Bus Boycott -- The 1956 Presidential Election and the 1957 Civil Rights Act -- Little Rock, 1957 -- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- The Sit-Ins and the Founding of SNCC -- The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- The Freedom Rides -- Kennedy and Civil Rights, 1961 -- Albany, Georgia, 1961 -- Mississippi Voter Registration -- Birmingham -- Mississippi, Medgar Evers, and the Civil Rights Bill -- The March on Washington -- The Civil Rights Act -- 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer -- Selma, Alabama, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act -- Vietnam, Black Power, and the Assassination of Martin Luther King -- Afterword: We Are in Need of Shaking / by Vann R. Newkirk II.