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Tables of Contents for The Second Reconstruction
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
v
PART I---The Second Reconstruction
A Seedtime for Reform
3
8
Postwar Optimism
11
9
Early Successes and a Hint of a Schism
20
14
The Road from Birmingham to Selma
34
12
Black Power and Backlash
46
10
The Movement in its Postreform Era
56
13
PART II---Documents
Gunnar Myrdal and the ``Negro Problem''
69
4
Theodore Bilbo and the Philosophy of Southern Racism, March 22, 1944
73
4
To Secure These Rights
77
4
Brown v. Board of Education, May 17, 1954
81
4
Rosa Parks's Story
85
2
Southern Legislators Reply to the Brown Decision
87
3
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
90
6
John Kennedy Speaks on Civil Rights, June 11, 1963
96
5
``I Have a Dream,'' Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963
101
4
Fannie Lou Hamer Speaks for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Atlantic City, 1964
105
3
Lyndon Johnson's Special Message to Congress, March 15, 1965
108
5
Charles Hamilton Defines Black Power
113
3
Roy Wilkins and the NAACP's Opposition to Black Power, July 5, 1966
116
3
Eldridge Cleaver on Watts
119
2
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
121
4
What We Want, What We Believe, Black Panthers, 1966
125
3
Affirmative Action and the Bakke Decision
128
2
Jesse Jackson and the Postreform Civil Rights Movement
130
3
Louis Farrakhan Calls for a Holy Day of Atonement and Reconciliation, October 16, 1995
133
4
Bill Clinton Attempts to Heal the Nation's Wounds, October 16, 1995
137
6
Bibliography
143
6
Index
149