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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Early America, Early Dissent 1787-1865 | |
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| The Curse of Slavery | |
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| Blood and Slavery | |
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| This Is Our Country | |
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| An Address at the African Masonic Hall | |
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| Address to the Massachusetts Legislature | |
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| Loosening the Bonds of Prejudice | |
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| Defending the Amistad Slaves | |
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| An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America | |
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| Address at Seneca Falls | |
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| Ar'n't I a Woman? | |
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| What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? | |
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| No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery | |
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| Leave Women, Then, to Find Their Sphere | |
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| On Seizing Land from Native Californians | |
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| A House Divided | |
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| No Consciousness of Guilt | |
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| A Day to Celebrate Emancipation | |
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| Second Inaugural Address | |
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| In Praise of Labor | |
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| Measured Gains: Two Steps Forward, One Step Backward 1866-1949 | |
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| We Are All Bound Up Together | |
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| The Myth of "Yellow Peril" | |
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| Suffrage and the Working Woman | |
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| Half Free, Half Slave | |
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| Unsung Heroes | |
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| The First African-American Governor | |
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| The Queens of Womanhood | |
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| Man Cannot Speak for Her | |
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| A Call for Black Women | |
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| The Atlanta Compromise | |
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| Training Negroes for Social Power | |
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| The Progress of Colored Women | |
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| The Last, Hard Fight | |
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| A Moral Partnership Legitimized | |
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| A Defense of Japanese Americans | |
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| Crusade for Women's Birth Control | |
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| Defending Mexican Americans | |
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| A Separate Nation | |
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| A Last Word Before Incarceration | |
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| A Negro Nation Within a Nation | |
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| Fighting Words | |
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| Desegregating the Military | |
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| A Cloud of Suspicion | |
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| Guarding Our Heritage | |
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| Jim Crow Army | |
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| No Compromises | |
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| The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| The Civil Rights Era: Lift Every Voice 1950-1969 | |
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| Dismantling Segregation: Brown v. Board of Education | |
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| Montgomery Bus Boycott | |
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| The Homosexual Faces a Challenge | |
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| Federal Court Orders Must Be Upheld | |
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| Civil Rights Message | |
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| I Have a Dream | |
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| We Must Free Ourselves | |
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| Sex Discrimination in the Civil Rights Act | |
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| The Ballot or the Bullet | |
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| A Long, Long Way to Go | |
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| Brotherhood Among Ourselves | |
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| We Shall Overcome | |
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| To Fulfill These Rights | |
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| Day of Affirmation Address | |
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| Furthering the Homophile Movement | |
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| Black Power | |
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| The Silent People No Longer | |
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| The Land Grant Question | |
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| Breaking Bread for Progress | |
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| I've Been to the Mountaintop | |
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| On Martin Luther King's Death | |
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| From Expatriation to Emancipation | |
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| The Real Sexual Revolution | |
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| This Is No Land of Cynics | |
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| Chicano Nationalism: Fighting for La Raza | |
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| For the Equal Rights Ammendment | |
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| Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good? | |
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| Take Destiny into Your Own Hands | |
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| The Current Struggle: Slow But Steady Progress 1970-1998 | |
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| A Chicano Defined | |
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| Roe v. Wade: Legalizing Abortion | |
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| You Can Do It | |
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| Recognition NOW | |
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| America Should Admit Its Guilt | |
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| Tired of the Silence | |
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| That a Past Wrong Be Admitted | |
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| Our Time Has Come: 1984 Democratic Convention Speech | |
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| We Organized | |
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| Acting Up | |
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| Creating Change | |
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| What Gay Consciousness Brings | |
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| Anita Hill v. Clarence Thomas | |
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| The Story of Self-Hatred | |
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| Seeking a Conversation on Race | |
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| The Freedom to Die | |
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| We Are at War | |
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| Rejecting Racial Hatred | |
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| The Two Faces of American Immigration | |
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| A Million Men Marching On | |
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| Consciousness Is Power | |
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| Protecting Same-Sex Marriage | |
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| A Shining and Powerful Dream | |
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| Seneca Falls: 150 Years Later | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |