My soul looks back in wonder: voices of the civil rights experience

Introduction : the soul of change

section 1. The weight. I am a man / Jesse Epps

A dream is a good place to start / Endesha Holland

King of the blues / B.B. King

Twisted steel and sex appeal / Sputnik Monroe

Gentleman of the press / Vernon Jarrett

Skin dive / Dr. Sammy Lee

American Gandhi / James Lawson

The birth of Elvis / Jim Dickinson

The jump-off point / Jerome Smith

"Like little tortures each day" / Carol Swann-Daniels

section 2. We shall not be moved. A blinding flash opened our eyes / Carolyn McKinstry

Justice never sleeps / William Baxley

The veil of amnesia / Diane McWhorter

Heaven can wait / Joseph Lowery

Cracking the system / Raylawni Branch

Louisiana moon / Maurice Landrieu

Wake up, Washington! / Rachelle Horowitz

The brutal truth / Karl Fleming

Mother courage / Carolyn Goodman

Hour of power / Alvin Poussaint

Love story in black and white / Constancia Romilly

Hard-wired for freedom / Heather Booth

Help from on high / Curtis Graves

At history's elbow / Samuel Kyles

section 3. The wings of the future. Founding sisters / Susan Brownmiller

Unprincipled principal / Jose Angel Gutierrez

Shooting for big fish / Diane Wilson

Wheels of progress / Michelle Steger

Threads in the civil rights quilt / Barney Frank

Rewriting the lies / Suzan Harjo

The Latino underground railroad / John Fife

A more perfect union / Tawanda Murray

A living hope / Eugene Rivers

Afterword / Marion Wright Edelman.