Table of Contents

Introduction: Emancipation and Accomodation. New Directions: Urbanization and the Great Migration, 1915-30. Seeds of Change: The Great Depression and the Second World War, 1930-45. Montgomery Spring: Post-war Change and the Emergence of the CIvil Rights Movement, 1945-65. An African American Summer: Black Power, 1965-76. Winter in America: 1977 to the Millennium. Conclusion: Back to the Future. Appendix-Supreme Court Cases. Select Bibliography. Index.