Foreword / Margaret Walker
Introduction / Michele Furst
Picturing the black experience and framing the civil rights photography of Ernest C. Withers / Ronald W. Bailey
The Emmett Till murder trial, Sumner, Mississippi, 1955
School desegregation, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957
Memphis, Tennessee in the 1950s and 60s
Voter registration and the Tent City protest, Fayette County, Tennessee, 1960
James Meredith and the Mississippi Campaign, 1962 and 1966
Medgar Evers, 1925-1963
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, 1955
Sanitation Workers' Strike, Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memphis, Tennessee, April 4, 1968
Poor People's Campaign, Marks, Mississippi and Washington, DC, 1968
Afterword / Ronald W. Bailey
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