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Contents

Preface to Pillar of Fire

PART ONE

BIRMIGHAM TIDES

1 Islam in Los Angeles

2 Prophets in Chicago

3 LBJ in St. Augustine

4 Gamblers in Law

5 To Vote in Mississippi: Advance by Retreat

6 Tremors: L.A. to Selma

7 Marx in the White House

8 Summer Freeze

9 Cavalry: Lowenstein and the Church

10 Mirrors in Black and White

11 Against All Enemies

12 Frontiers on Edge: The Last Month

PART TWO

NEW WORLDS PASSING

13 Grief

14 High Councils

15 Hattiesburg Freedom Day

16 Ambush

17 Spreading Poisons

18 The Creation of Muhammad Ali

19 Shaky Pulpits

20 Mary Peabody Meets the Klan

21 Wrestling with Legends

22 Filibusters

23 Pilgrims and Empty Pitchers

24 Brushfires

PART THREE

FREEDOM SUMMER

25 Jail Marches

26 Bogue Chitto Swamp

27 Beachheads

28 Testing Freedom

29 The Cow Palace Revolt

30 King in Mississippi

31 Riot Politics

32 Crime, War, and Freedom School

33 White House Etiquette

34 A Dog in the Manger: The Atlantic City Compromise

35 "We see the giants..."

36 Movements Unbound

PART FOUR

"LORD, MAKE ME PURE -- BUT NOT YET"

37 Landslide

38 Nobel Prize

39 To the Valley: The Downward King

40 Saigon, Audubon, and Selma

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations Used in Source Notes

Notes

Major Works Cited in Notes

Index