Civil Rights Revolution: Events and Leaders, 1955 - 1968 Book

	Foreword
I	Prelude to revolution
	U.S. apartheid to Brown v. Board of Education	3
	Cases argued by the NAACP before the U.S. Supreme Court, 1915-1955	8
II	Nonviolent activists v. the establishment	13
	Students v. Prince Edward County, VA, 1951-1964	13
	Autherine Lucy v. University of Alabama, 1952-1988	15
	Baton Rouge bus boycott, LA, 1953	16
	The Montgomery bus boycott, AL, 1955-1956	18
	Tallahassee bus boycott, FL, 1956-1958	23
	Virginia v. the NAACP, 1956	27
	Alabama v. the NAACP, 1956	28
	The Ku Klux Klan v. black activists, AL, 1956-1963	29
	Prayer pilgrimage for freedom, Washington, DC, 1957	31
	Daisy Bates v. Governor Faubus, AR, 1957-1959	33
	Miami lunch counter sit-ins, FL, 1959	38
	Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins, NC, 1960	38
	Nashville lunch counter sit-ins, TN, 1960	41
	Tallahassee lunch counter sit-ins, FL, 1960	43
	Baton Rouge lunch counter sit-ins, LA, 1961	46
	Desegregation of Savannah, GA, 1960-1963	46
	Desegregation of Atlanta, GA, 1960-1961	48
	Desegregation of College Station, TX, 1959-1961	51
	Sharecroppers seek to vote, TN, 1960-1961	53
	Hunter and Holmes desegregate the University of Georgia, 1961	54
	Freedom riders - first echelon, 1961	55
	Freedom riders - second echelon, 1961	58
	The Albany Campaign, GA, 1961-1962	61
	Meredith matriculates at Ole Miss, MS, 1961-1962	64
	COFO and Moses v. extreme apartheid, MS, 1961-1964	66
	Harvey Gantt desegregates Clemson University, SC, 1963	70
	William Moore, the postman, April 1963	71
	The mock freedom vote, MS, 1963	72
	The "battle" of Birmingham, AL, 1963	73
	Dr. King answers eight white clergymen, AL, 1963	77
	Desegregation of Greensboro, NC, 1963	79
	Danville demonstrations and boycott, VA, 1963	83
	March on Washington, DC, 1963	85
	Tallahassee Theater desegregation, FL, 1963	87
	Tallahassee two-way pool desegregation, FL, 1963	88
	North Florida citizen education project, 1963-1964	89
	Saint Augustine campaign, FL, 1963-1964	90
	Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1964	93
	Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964	95
	Women's Wednesdays in Mississippi, 1964-1965	98
	Selma voter registration drive by SNCC, AL, 1963-1964	99
	Selma voter registration drive by SCLC, AL, 1965	101
	Police ambush marchers in Marion, AL, 1965	105
	U.S. Supreme Court v. U.S. apartheid, 1958-1968	110
	Meredith's march against fear, MS, 1966	111
	"Operation breadbasket," Atlanta and Chicago, 1962-1971	114
	Chicago freedom movement, IL, 1966	116
	Cleveland mayoral campaign, OH, 1967	120
	J. Edgar Hoover v. Dr. King, 1964-1968	121
	Dr. King v. President Johnson re : Vietnam, 1967	122
	The Orangeburg Massacre, SC, 1960 and 1968	125
	AFSCME workers strike, Memphis, TN, 1968	127
	AFSCME workers strikes, Atlanta and Charleston, 1968	129
III	Leaders of the Revolution	133
	Abernathy, Ralph David	134
	Baker, Ella Josephine	134
	Barry, Marion Sheppilov	135
	Bates, Daisy Gaston	135
	Belafonte, Harold George	136
	Bevel, James Luther	137
	Bond, Julian	137
	Carter, Robert L.	138
	Clark, Septima Poisette	138
	Conyers, John, Jr.	139
	Cotton, Dorothy Foreman	139
	Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt	140
	Due, Patricia Stephens	141
	Edelman, Marian Wright	142
	Evers, Medgar Wylie	142
	Farmer, James Leonard	143
	Fauntroy, Walter	143
	Forman, James	144
	Gray, Fred David	145
	Green, Ernest G.	145
	Gregory, Richard Claxon	145
	Hamer, Fannie Lou Townsend	146
	Height, Dorothy Irene	146
	Henry, Aaron	147
	Houston, Charles Hamilton	147
	Hunter-Gault, Charlayne	148
	Jackson, Jesse Louis	148
	Jordan, Vernon Eulion, Jr.	149
	King, Martin Luther, Jr.	149
	King, Coretta Scott	150
	King, Martin Luther, Sr.	151
	Lawson, James Morris	151
	Lewis, John	152
	Lowery, Joseph E.	152
	Marshall, Thurgood	153
	Mays, Benjamin Elijah	153
	McCain, James	154
	McKissick, Floyd B.	154
	Meredith, James H.	155
	Mitchell, Clarence M., Jr.	155
	Moses, Robert Parris	156
	Motley, Constance Baker	157
	Nash, Diane Judith	157
	Nixon, Edgar Daniel	157
	Parks, Rosa Louise McCauley	158
	Randolph, Asa Philip	159
	Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson	160
	Rustin, Bayard	161
	Shuttlesworth, Fred Lee	161
	Smith, Kelly Miller	162
	Steele, Charles Kenzie	162
	Thurman, Howard	162
	Vivian, Cordy Tindell	163
	Walker, Wyatt Tee	163
	White, Walter Frances	164
	Wilkins, Roy Otaway	164
	Williams, Hosea Lorenzo	165
	Young, Andrew Jackson	166
	Young, Jean Childs	166
	Young, Whitney Moore, Jr.	167
	Nonviolent civil rights organizations	167
IV	Accomplishments	173
	Civil Rights Act of 1957	173
	Civil Rights Act of 1960	174
	Twenty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution	175
	Civil Rights Act of 1964	175
	Voting Rights Act of 1965	177
	The Fair Housing Act of 1968	179