Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Chronology
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. "The Best of Times ... The Worst of Times": Youth
  • Chapter 2. "It Said What It Meant and Meant What It Said": Voter Registration
  • Chapter 3. "I'm Ready to Go": School Desegregation
  • Chapter 4. Freedom Summer and "Good Things": Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970
  • Chapter 5. "Fighting Is an Everyday Thing": The Continuing Crusade for Civil Rights
  • Chapter 6. "The Cost to Be Free": Reflections on a Life of Activism
  • Epilogue
  • Index