Introduction: The unfolding civil-rights struggle in America / Alan F. Westin
pt. 1. Negro perspectives on civil rights in the 1960s
pt. 2. The Negro civil-rights struggle in historical perspective
pt. 3. Sources of the civil-rights protest: Denial of voting rights to Negroes
Racial discrimination in employment
Segregation in public education: South and North
Discrimination in public accommodations
Denial of housing to Negroes
Discrimination against Negroes in law enforcement
pt. 4. The techniques of the civil-rights struggle
pt. 5. Areas of tension within the civil-rights movement.

Color and American Civilization / James Baldwin
Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King Jr
The Unpredictable Negro / Louis E Lomax
Outgrowing the Ghetto Mind / Ebony
The Management of the Civil Rights Struggle / Kenneth Clark, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young Jr, James Farmer, Martin Luther King Jr and James Forman
Freedom now but what then? / Loren Miller
A Marshall Plan for the American Negro / National Urban League
Black Muslims and Civil Rights / Malcolm X
Ending Jim Crow Schools in Boston, 1855 / Louis Ruchames
Ride ins and Sit ins of the 1870s / Alan F Westin
The March on Washington Movement during World War II / A Philip Randolph
A Chronology of the New Civil Rights Protest, 1960-1963 / Claude Sitton
Bullets and Ballots in Greenwood, Mississippi / Claude Sitton
Pattern of Southern Disenfranchisement of Negroes / Burke Marshall
Jobs for Negroes The Unfinished Revolution / A Philip Randolph
The Waste of Negro Talent in a Southern State / Gene Roberts Jr
Racial Barriers in the Union Apprentice Programs / Herbery Hill
Corporate Hiring Policies and Negoes / Newsweek
School Integration Statistics in the South The Crawling Revolution / Alan F Westin
The Techniques of Southern Tokenism / J Kenneth Morland
Englewood, New Jersey A Case Study in De Facto Segregation / Paul Hope
The Facts of De Facto / Time
The Struggles foe Equal Service at Public Facilities / United States Commission on Civil Rights
Humiliation Stalks Them / Roy Wilkins
Cambridge Demonstration Resumed / Charles Rabb
Breaking the Color Line in Memphis, Tennessee / Russell Sugarmon Jr
The Realities of Discrimination in San Francisco / Irving Babow
The Color Line in Northern Suburbia / James H Kirk and Elaine D Johnson
The Struggle for Open Housing / Frances Levenson and Margaret Fisher
Color Blind or Color Conscious? Benign Quotas in Housing / Peter Marcuse
Keeping Negroes in Their Place in Geroria / United States Commission on Civil Rights
Police Tactics in Mississippi / Mississippi Advisory Committee, United States Commission on Civil Rights
Segregated Justice in Birmingham / Charles Morgan Jr
Police Inaction and Anti Negro Violence / United States Commission on Civil Rights
Keeping Negroes in Their Place in Detroit / United States Commission on Civil Rights
Negroes and the Police in Los Angeles / Loren Miller
Boycott in Philadelphia / Hannah Lees
Picketing in Rochdale Village / William H Booth
Freedom Ride Washington to New Orleans / James Peck
Biracial Committee in Knoxville / Wilma Dykeman and James Stokely
The Sit in Comes to Atlanta / C Eric Lincoln
Court Victory in New Rochelle / Irving R Kaufman
Marching on Washington / Murray Kepton
Blockades in New York / Peter Kihss
A Debate over Compensation Programs / Whitney M Young Jr and Kyle Haselden
The Negro and Labor Unions / Daniel Bell
Negro Jewish Relations / Will Maslow
The New Negro and the Protestant Churches / Gayraud S Wilmore Jr
Whit and Negro Extremism / Harry S Ashmore
Middle Class Negroes and the Negro Masses / Whitney M Young Jr
The White Liberals Retreat / Murray Friedman.