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Contents

Preface
Introduction: September 15, 1963

Part I: Precedents, 1938­1959
1. The City of Perpetual Promise: 1938
2. Ring Out the Old: 1948
3. Mass Movements: 1954­1956
4. Rehearsal: 1956­1959

Part II: Movement, 1960­1962
5. Breaking Out
6. Action
7. Freedom Ride
8. Pivot
9. The Full Cast
10. Progress

Part III: The Year of Birmingham, 1963
11. New Day Dawns
12. Mad Dogs and Responsible Negroes
13. Baptism
14. Two Mayors and a King
15. D-Day
16. Miracle
17. Mayday
18. The Threshold
19. Edge of Heaven
20. No More Water
21. The Schoolhouse Door
22. The End of Segregation
23. The Beginning of Integration
24. All the Governor's Men
25. A Case of Dynamite
26. The Eve
27. Denise, Carole, Cynthia, and Addie
28. Aftershocks
29. BAPBOMB
30. General Lee's Namesakes
Epilogue
Afterword

Abbreviations Used in Source Notes
Notes

Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index