The Color Line
Pre-contact North America and European Colonization
Early Virginia
A Slave System is Established
Beyond Virginia
The Founding
King Cotton
More Land and Labor
Sectional Conflicts and the Color Line
Civil War and Reconstruction
Redemption and Jim Crow
Western Indians
Closing the Door
An American Empire
The Great Migration
Surviving and Defying Jim Crow
The Second Reconstruction
The Civil Rights Movement
Black Separatism, Armed Self-Defense and Urban Disorders
The Wider Civil Rights Movement
End of the Second Reconstruction
The Persistence of the Color Line
Where Do We Go From Here
and How Do We Get There?