Groundwork: local black freedom movements in America

'They told us our kids were stupid': Ruth Batson and the educational movement in Boston / Jeanne Theoharis

'Drive a while for freedom': Brooklyn CORE's 1964 stall-in and public discourses on protest violence / Brian Purnell

Message from the grassroots: the black power experiment in Newark, New Jersey / Komozi Woodard

Gloria Richardson and the civil rights movement in Cambridge, Maryland / Peter B. Levy

We've come a long way: Septima Clark, the warings, and the changing civil rights movement / Katherine Mellen Charron

Organizing for more than the vote: the political radicalization of local people in Lowndes County, Alabama, 1965-1966 / Hasan Kwama Jeffries

'God's appointed savior': Charles Evers's use of local movements for national stature / Emilye Crosby

Local women and the civil rights movement in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1943-1953 / Michael Washington

'We cannot wait for understanding to come to us': community activists respond to violence at Detroit's Northwestern High School, 1940-1941 / Karen Miller

'Not a color, but an attitude': Father James Groppi and black power politics in Milwaukee / Patrick Jones

Practical internationalists: the story of the Des Moines, Iowa, Black Panther Party / Reynaldo Anderson

Inside the Panther revolution: the black freedom movement and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California / Robyn Ceanne Spencer.