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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: It Didn't Start in 1954 | |
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| Slavery: America's First Compromise | |
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| Introduction: Original Sin | |
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| The International Slave Trade | |
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| Slavery, the Constitution, and the Founding Fathers | |
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| Our Pro-Slavery Constitution | |
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| Slave Religion, Rebellion, and Docility | |
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| 1787 Petition for Equal Educational Facilities | |
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| The Abolitionist Movement | |
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| Too Long Have Others Spoken for Us | |
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| Education for Black Women | |
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| Walker's Appeal | |
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| On African Rights and Liberty | |
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| The Liberator: Opening Editorial | |
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| An Address to the Slaves of the United States | |
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| Free Blacks and Suffrage | |
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| Silencing Debate: The Congressional Gag Rule | |
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| Equality before the Law | |
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| Free Blacks and the Fugitive Slave Act | |
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| The Fugitive Slave Law | |
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| What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? | |
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| Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) | |
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| Illinois No Longer a Free State | |
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| Literacy, Slavery, and Religion | |
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| Who Freed the Slaves? | |
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| Reconstruction | |
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| Introduction: The Second American Revolution | |
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| The Second American Revolution | |
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| Schools for Freedom | |
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| The Southern Black Church | |
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| Forty Acres and a Mule: Special Field Order No. 15 | |
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| A Proposal for Reconstruction | |
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| Woman's Rights | |
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| Woman Suffrage | |
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| Black Women during Reconstruction | |
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| Southern Discomfort | |
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| The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy | |
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| Black Workers and Republicans in the South | |
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| The Reconstruction Myth | |
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| The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson | |
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| Segregation | |
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| Introduction: Separate and Unequal | |
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| The Repression of Free Blacks | |
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| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | |
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| Newspapers on Plessy v. Ferguson | |
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| How Disenfranchisement Was Accomplished | |
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| Lynching | |
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| The Atlanta Massacre | |
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| The Race War in the North | |
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| Jim Crow and the Limits of Freedom, 1890-1940 | |
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| Blacks and the First Red Scare | |
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| The Second Klan | |
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| The Black and Progressive Response | |
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| Black Workers from Reconstruction to the Great Depression | |
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| The Atlanta Address | |
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| Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others | |
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| Report of the 1900 Pan-African Conference | |
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| The Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles | |
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| The Task for the Future | |
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| Returning Soldiers | |
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| Lynching a Domestic Question? | |
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| Address to President Wilson | |
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| The Higher Education of Women | |
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| Black Women and the Right to Vote | |
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| Woman Suffrage and the Fifteenth Amendment | |
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| Woman Suffrage and the Negro | |
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| The Great Migration | |
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| Migration and Political Power | |
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| The Objectives of the Universal Negro Improvement Association | |
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| The Garvey Milieu | |
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| The Scottsboro Case | |
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| Women and Lynching | |
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| Blacks and the New Deal | |
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| Mary McLeod Bethune and the Black Cabinet | |
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| Marian Anderson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the D.A.R. | |
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| Blacks and the CIO | |
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| The Harlem Bus Boycott of 1941 | |
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| The March on Washington Movement | |
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| Executive Order 8802: Establishing the FEPC | |
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| The Sharecroppers' Tale | |
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| The "Double V" Campaign | |
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| Nazi and Dixie Nordics | |
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| The Civil Rights Congress | |
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| The Second Reconstruction | |
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| Introduction: The Modern Civil Rights Movement | |
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| The Legal Strategy | |
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| Charles Hamilton Houston and the NAACP Legal Strategy | |
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| The NAACP and Brown | |
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| Brown v. Board of Education (1954) | |
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| Mississippi Murders | |
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| Labor Days | |
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| Labor, Radicals, and the Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Migration and Electoral Politics | |
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| To Secure These Rights | |
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| Executive Order 9981: Barring Segregation in the Armed Forces | |
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| The Second Red Scare: The Cold War in Black America | |
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| Remembering Jackie Robinson | |
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| Paul Robeson and the House Un-American Activities Committee | |
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| The Highlander School | |
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| If the Negro Wins, Labor Wins | |
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| CORE and the Pacifist Roots of Civil Rights | |
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| The Churches' Hour | |
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| The Baton Rouge Bus Boycott | |
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| Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott | |
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| The Social Organization of Nonviolence | |
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| SCLC and "The Beloved Community" | |
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| On King's Influences and Borrowings | |
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| Women and Community Leadership | |
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| The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | |
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| SNCC Statement of Purpose | |
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| Suppose Not Negroes but Men of Property Were Being Beaten in Mississippi | |
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| Letter from Birmingham City Jail | |
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| Television Address on Civil Rights | |
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| What Really Happened at the March on Washington? | |
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| Which Side Is the Federal Government On? | |
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| I Have a Dream | |
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| Movie Myths about Mississippi Summer | |
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| Freedom Schools | |
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| The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party | |
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| Testimony before the 1964 DNC Credentials Committee | |
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| Civil Rights and Black Protest Music | |
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| From Protest to Politics | |
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| The Selma Movement and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 | |
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| Address on Voting Rights | |
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| Economic Justice: The North Has Problems Too | |
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| Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders | |
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| The Watts Uprising | |
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| The Great Society | |
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| The SCLC and Chicago | |
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| Resurrection City and the Poor People's Campaign | |
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| The Welfare Rights Movement | |
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| Black Power | |
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| We Must Have Justice | |
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| The Ballot or the Bullet | |
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| Malcolm and Martin: A Common Solution | |
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| What We Want | |
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| The Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program | |
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| The Black Panther Party | |
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| Women and the Black Panther Party | |
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| Black Power and Labor | |
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| Electoral and Street Politics | |
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| The Nixon Administration and Civil Rights | |
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| The Gary Black Political Convention of 1972 | |
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| Police Violence and Riots | |
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| Rodney King, Police Brutality, and Riots | |
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| Black Power in the Age of Jackson | |
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| Race and the Democrats | |
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| Mississippi Abolishes Slavery | |
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| Undercounting Minorities | |
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| The Color of Money | |
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| Discrimination: Ongoing Examples | |
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| The Possessive Investment in Whiteness | |
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| Discrimination and Racism Continue | |
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| Education's "Savage Inequalities" | |
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| Shopping While Black | |
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| Environmental Racism | |
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| Affirmative Action | |
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| Affirmative Action and History | |
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| The Great White Myth | |
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| How the Press Frames Affirmative Action | |
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| Position Paper on Affirmative Action | |
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| Backlash Redux | |
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| Introduction: Redemption II | |
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| The Roots of Backlash | |
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| The Southern Manifesto | |
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| George Wallace and the Roots of Modern Republicanism | |
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| Segregation Forever | |
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| The Southern Strategy | |
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| The Nixon That Black Folks Knew | |
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| The FBI, COINTELPRO, and the Repression of Civil Rights | |
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| The Urban Fiscal Crisis and the Rebirth of Conservatism | |
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| Boston's Battle over Busing | |
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| Backlash | |
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| The Tax Revolt | |
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| Campus Racism and the Reagan Budget Cuts | |
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| The War against the Poor | |
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| David Duke and the Southern Strategy | |
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| The Civil Rights Act of 1991 | |
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| How "Welfare" Became a Dirty Word | |
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| Lazy Lies about Welfare | |
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| Race and the "New Democrats" | |
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| Defunding the Congressional Black Caucus | |
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| Vouchers, the Right, and the Race Card | |
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| The Prison Industrial Complex | |
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| Felony Disenfranchisement | |
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| Chain Gang Blues | |
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| Breaking Thurgood Marshall's Promise | |
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| Toward a Third Reconstruction | |
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| Introduction: Where Do We Go from Here? | |
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| Time for a Third Reconstruction | |
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| Toward a New Protest Paradigm | |
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| Why Inter-Ethnic Anti-Racism Matters Now | |
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| How the New Working Class Can Transform Urban America | |
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| What Works to Reduce Inequality? | |
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| A Workers' Bill of Rights | |
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| A Ten-Point Plan | |
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| Both Race and Class: A Time for Anger | |
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| Fear of a Black Feminist Planet | |
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| Response to the Million Man March | |
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| What Farrakhan Left Out | |
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| Clean-Money Campaign Finance Reform | |
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| Proportional Representation | |
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| We Can Educate All Our Children | |
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| Algebra as Civil Rights: An Interview with Bob Moses | |
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| Pulpit Politics: Religion and the Black Radical Tradition | |
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| Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident | |
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| We Don't Need Another Dr. King | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Editors | |