CONTENTS Series Foreword ix Preface to First Edition xi Preface to Second Edition xiii Acknowledgments xvii Chronology of Events xix Chapter 1. The Modern Civil Rights Movement: An Overview 1 Chapter 2. Freedom’s Coming and It Won’t Be Long: The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement 49 Chapter 3. Mississippi: “Is This America?” A Case Study of the Movement 71 Chapter 4. In the North Too: The Black Freedom Struggle Outside of Dixie 95 Chapter 5. Sisterhood Is Powerful: Women and the Civil Rights Movement 125 Chapter 6. From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter 149 Biographical Essays Ella Jo Baker (1903–1986) 157 Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (1941–1998) 158