Better day coming: Blacks and equality, 1890-2000

1. The failure of reconstruction and the triumph of white supremacy.

2. Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching.

3. Booker T. Washington and the strategy of accommodation.

4. The rise of the NAACP.

5. The great war and racial equality.

6. Marcus Garvey and the UNIA.

7. The radical thirties.

8. Blacks in the segregated South, 1919-42.

9. The NAACP's challenge to white supremacy, 1935-45.

10. Two steps forward and one step back, 1946-55.

11. The nonviolent rebellion, 1955-60.

12. The Civil Rights Movement, 1960-63.

13. Birmingham, the freedom summer, and Selma.

14. The rise and fall of black power.

15. The continuing struggle.