Table of Contents:
  • The Pursuit of Justice
  • We Lost the Idea of Being Afraid Haywood County, Tennessee
  • The Value of Improved Self-Worth Lee County, Arkansas
  • The Time for Waiting Had Been Used Up Lowndes County, Alabama
  • The People Are Trying to Do Something Sea Islands, South Carolina
  • The Elusion of Emancipation
  • Economics: Land Reform and Landless Farmers
  • Education: Instruction and Incrementalism
  • Politics: Civil Wrongs and Civil Rights
  • Health: Contexts and Cures
  • The Politics of Hope
  • Process: Sources of Reform
  • Progress: Race, Leadership, and Change
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue.