An account of the development of the movement from slavery to black power.

Something happened in Montgomery -- Welcome, white men! -- First Americans -- Whence came all these people? -- Promised land -- Melting pot -- Trading in men: Numbness upon the heart -- Boy from Benin -- Wild ones -- Perpetual servants -- Rights of man: To form a more perfect union -- Slavery's chains -- Railroad -- At the north: Halfway to heaven -- Freedom fighters -- Gathering storm: Somebody must die -- Disobey this law! -- Years of hope: Black Yankees -- Our common brotherhood -- Dream betrayed: Forty acres ... -- Invisible empire -- Good-by -- Birth of Jim Crow: Following the election returns -- Homer Plessy goes to court -- Wall -- Compromise -- Black ghetto: Exodusters -- They shall not pass! -- Make way for democracy! -- We are men -- State Department -- War Department -- Shame of America: Right to live -- Castles and men -- New Deal: Depression! -- Good will -- March that never was -- Right to fight -- Law Department: Right to a home -- Right to vote -- Separate but unequal -- Ghost of Homer Plessy -- Children's Crusade: "I had a right to go" -- Battle of Oxford -- Freedom of choice -- Segregation northern style -- Soul power: Please be peaceful -- Young and the brave -- Freedom ride -- " ... Because it is right": Project C -- I have a dream -- Iceberg -- "It is wrong ..." -- Black power: March against fear -- Black ... power -- End of the beginning: Widening gulf -- Seamless web -- Unfinished revolution.