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Introduction: The Early Fight for Civil Rights

The Abolitionist Crusade

Black Abolitionist Leaders

The War Against Slavery

A Post–Civil War Civil Rights Movement

The Emergence of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois

Early Twentieth-Century Black Reformers

World War II Provides a Challenge to Jim Crow

Challenging Jim Crow Schools

A Legal Precedent

The Civil Rights Movement

Chapter 1 Black Abolitionists

Chapter Preface

Slavery Violates the Will of God

A Slave Rebellion

Becoming an Abolitionist Leader

A Woman Abolitionist Speaks Out

Chapter 2 The Civil War and Reconstruction Eras

Chapter Preface

Assistance for the Newly Freed Slaves

A Day of Celebration for Abolitionists

Reconstruction and the Needs of the American Negro

The Role of Colored Women in Postwar American Society

Chapter 3 Booker T. Washington and His Critics

Chapter Preface

A New Era of Industrial Progress

A Critique of Booker T. Washington's Message

Booker T. Washington's Accomplishments

Tensions Within the Civil Rights Movement

Chapter 4 The Early Twentieth Century

Chapter Preface

Fighting to Stop Lynching

The Social Equality of Blacks and Whites

Creating a Separate Black Nation

Fleeing the South

Chapter 5 Martin Luther King's Forerunners

Chapter Preface

Integrating Major League Baseball

The Effort to Desegregate America's Public Schools

Desegregating Montgomery's Buses

Chronology

For Further Research

General Histories of the Civil Rights Movement

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