Groundwork: local black freedom movements in America

"They told us our kids were stupid": Ruth Batson and the educational movement in Boston / Jeanne Theoharis

"Drive awhile for freedom": Brooklyn CORE's 1964 stall-in and public discourses on protest violence / Brian Purnell

Message from the grassroots: the black power experiment in Newark, New Jersey / Komozi Woodard

Gloria Richardson and the civil rights movement in Cambridge, Maryland / Peter B. Levy

We've come a long way: Septima Clark, the warings, and the changing civil rights movement / Katherine Mellen Charron

Organizing for more than the vote: the political radicalization of local people in Lowndes County, Alabama, 1965-1966 / Hasan Kwame Jeffries

"God's appointed savior": Charles Evers's use of local movements for national stature / Emilye Crosby

Local women and the civil rights movement in Mississippi: re-visioning Womanpower Unlimited / Tiyi Morris

The stirrings of the modern civil rights movement in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1943-1953 / Michael Washington

"We cannot wait for understanding to come to us": community activists respond to violence at Detroit's Northwestern High School, 1940-1941 / Karen Miller

"Not a color, but an attitude": Father James Groppi and black power politics in Milwaukee / Patrick Jones

Practical internationalists: the story of the Des Moines, Iowa, Black Panther Party / Reynaldo Anderson

Inside the Panther revolution: the black freedom movement and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California / Robyn Ceanne Spencer.