| Introduction | ix |
Part 1 | The Making of a Movement | |
| Nonviolence vs. Jim Crow (1942) | 1 |
| The Negro and Nonviolence (1942) | 6 |
| Letter to the Draft Board (1943) | 11 |
| We Challenged Jim Crow (1947) | 14 |
| Civil Disobedience, Jim Crow, and the Armed Forces (1948) | 28 |
| Twenty-Two Days on a Chain Gang (1949) | 31 |
| Montgomery Diary (1956) | 58 |
| Fear in the Delta (1956) | 66 |
| New South...Old Politics (1956) | 95 |
| Even in the Face of Death (1957) | 102 |
Part 2 | The Politics of Protest | |
| The Meaning of Birmingham (1963) | 110 |
| Preamble to the March on Washington (1963) | 112 |
| From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement (1964) | 116 |
| Some Lessons from Watts (1965) | 130 |
| The Mind of the Black Militant (1967) | 139 |
| Guns, Bread, and Butter (1967) | 147 |
| The Anatomy of Frustration (1968) | 151 |
| No More Guns (1969) | 160 |
Part 3 | African American Leadership | |
| Bayard Rustin Meets Malcolm X (1960) | 164 |
| Making His Mark: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) | 173 |
| In Defense of Muhammad Ali (1967) | 182 |
| Dr. King's Painful Dilemma (1967) | 184 |
| Reflections on the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968) | 186 |
| The Total Vision of A. Philip Randolph (1969) | 196 |
| Eldridge Cleaver and the Democratic Idea (1976) | 202 |
| A Black Presidential Candidacy? (1983) | 207 |
| The Curious Case of Louis Farrakhan (1985) | 210 |
Part 4 | Equality Beyond Race | |
| The Myth of Black Studies (1969) | 214 |
| The Failure of Black Separatism (1970) | 217 |
| Feminism and Equality (1970) | 237 |
| The Blacks and the Unions (1971) | 239 |
| Black Women and Women's Liberation (1972) | 256 |
| Affirmative Action in an Economy of Scarcity (1974) | 259 |
| Civil Rights and Uncivil Wrongs (1982) | 265 |
| Civil Rights: Twenty Years Later (1983) | 267 |
Part 5 | Gay Rights | |
| From Montgomery to Stonewall (1986) | 272 |
| The New "Niggers" Are Gays (1986) | 275 |
| Brother to Brother: An Interview with Joseph Beam (1986) | 277 |
| Black and Gay in the Civil Rights Movement: An Interview with Open Hands (1987) | 281 |
| Martin Luther King's Views on Gay People (1987) | 292 |
| The Importance of Gay Rights Legislation (1987) | 295 |
| Time on Two Crosses: An Interview with George Chauncey, Jr. (1987) | 299 |
Part 6 | Equality Beyond America | |
| African Revolution (1958) | 306 |
| How Black Americans See Black Africans--and Vice Versa (1969) | 314 |
| American Negroes and Israel (1974) | 318 |
| A U.S. Coalition on Human Rights (1977) | 327 |
| The War Against Zimbabwe (1979) | 333 |
| A Way Out: Solutions for South Africa (1983) | 350 |
| Bibliography | 353 |
| About the Editors | 355 |