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Table of Contents Preface: Toward a More Perfect Union | |
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Acknowledgments Project | |
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Notes | |
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Prologue | |
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Emmett Till, 1955: “I Wanted the Whole World to See” | |
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-6: “Like a Revival Starting” | |
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The Little Rock Crisis, 1957-58: “I Had Cracked the Wall” | |
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Student Sit-ins in Nashville, 1960: “A Badge of Honor” | |
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Freedom Rides, 1961: “Sticks and Bricks” | |
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Albany, Georgia, 1961-2: “The Mother Lode” | |
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James Meredity Enters Ole Miss, 1962: “Things Would Never Be the Same” | |
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Birmingham, 1963: “Something Has Got to Change” | |
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Organizing in Mississippi, 1961-3: “The Reality of What We Were Doing Hit Me” | |
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The March on Washington, 1963: “They Voted with Their Feet” | |
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The Sixteenth Street Church Bombing, 1963: “You Realized How Intense the Opposition Was” | |
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Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964: “Representation and the Right to Participate” | |
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Selma, 1965: “Troopers, Advance” | |
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Malcolm X (1925-1965): “Our Own Black Shining Prince!” | |
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The Lowndes County Freedom Organization, 1965-6: “Vote for the Panther, Then Go Home” | |
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The Meredith March, 1966: “Hit Them Now” | |
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Chicago, 1966: “Chicago Was a Symbol” | |
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Muhammad Ali, 1964-7 “His Philosophy Made It Impossible Not to Take a Stand” | |
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Birth of the Black Panthers, 1966-7: “We Wanted Control!” | |
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Detroit, 1967: “Inside of Most Black People There Was a Time Bomb” | |
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The Election of Carl Stokes, 1967: “We Had to Be Organized” | |
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Howard University, 1967-8: “You Saw the Silhouette of Her Afro” | |
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King’s Last Crusade, 1967-8: “We’ve Got Some Difficult Days Ahead” | |
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Resurrection City, 1968: “The End of a Major Battle” | |
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Ocean Hill-Brownsville, 1967-8: “Everything Became More Political” | |
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The Black Panthers, 1968-9: “How Serious and Deadly the Game” | |
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Attica and Prisoners’ Rights, 1971: “There’s Always Time to Die” | |
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The Gary Convention, 1972: “Unity Without Uniformity” | |
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Busing in Boston, 1974-6: “As if Some Alien Was Coming into the School” | |
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Atlanta and Affirmative Action, 1973-80: “The Politics of Inclusion” | |
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Epilogue: From Miami to America’s | |
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Future For Further Reading “Eyes on the Prize” Project Staff and Funders | |
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Index | |