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| Preface to Third Edition | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of Plates | |
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| Introduction: African-American Leaders and Limited Options | |
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| Perspectives: Black protest and accommodation, 1800-1877 | |
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| Prom Booker T. Washington to Barack Obama | |
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| Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee | |
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| Perspectives: Separate and unequal: Southern race relations, 1865-1895 | |
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| Booker T. Washington: Early life | |
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| Tuskegee | |
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| The Atlanta Compromise address | |
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| Up from Slavery | |
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| Race leader | |
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| A black Benedict Arnold? | |
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| Assessment | |
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| W.E.B. Du Bois: Talented Propagandist | |
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| Perspectives: Northern blacks organize for protest, 1890-1910 | |
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| W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography | |
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| The Crisis editor | |
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| Pan-Africanism | |
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| A leader without followers, 1934-1963 | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Marcus Garvey: Black Moses | |
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| Perspectives: The northern black ghetto, 1900-1920 | |
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| Marcus Garvey: Black Jamaican | |
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| The Universal Negro Improvement Association | |
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| Garvey in America | |
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| The Black Star Line | |
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| Garveyism | |
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| Garvey and his black critics | |
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| Du Bois and Garvey | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr.: Apostle of Nonviolence | |
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| Perspectives: A New Deal for African Americans? Civil rights and black protest, 1932-1954 | |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr.: The making of a leader | |
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| The Southern Christian Leadership Conference | |
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| MLK and JFK | |
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| Albany, Birmingham, and the March on Washington | |
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| St. Augustine and Selma | |
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| Chicago, Black Power, and Vietnam | |
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| The Poor People's Campaign and the Memphis strike | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Malcolm X: "The Angriest Negro in America" | |
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| Perspectives: Black nationalism after Garvey, the separatist impulse, 1930-1950 | |
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| Malcolm Little to Malcolm X | |
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| Malcolm X: Muslim | |
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| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | |
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| Malcolm X and his black critics | |
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| Assessment | |
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| African-American Women: Heroines and Trailblazers | |
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| Perspectives: African-American women as leaders | |
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| Harriet Tubman | |
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| Ida B. Wells | |
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| Mary McLeod Bethune | |
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| Fannie Lou Hamer | |
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| Condoleezza Rice | |
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| Oprah Winfrey | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Jesse Jackson: The Rainbow Man | |
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| Perspectives: From Black Power to political power, 1960s | |
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| Black Power: "Old Wine in New Bottles"? | |
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| Jesse Jackson: From A&T to Rainbow/PUSH | |
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| Presidential contender | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Barack Obama: America's First Black President | |
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| Perspectives: The newest African-American leaders | |
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| Dreams from My Father | |
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| Black man headed to the White House | |
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| Obama's presidency | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |