Prologue: The Road into Selma, Fall 1962 -- Preparing for Selma -- Shackles of Fear, Handcuffs of Hopelessness -- Preparing to Register to Vote -- Central Alabama Heats Up -- Mountains and Valleys -- The March from Selma to Montgomery -- Reflections on the Alabama Voter Registration Campaign -- Epilogue: The road out of Selma, March 1965 -- Appendixes -- A: Example of a Literacy Test for Registering to Vote -- B: Excerpt from President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Message to the Congress: "The American Promise" -- C: Dr. King's Six Principles of Nonviolence Related to Selma -- D: Life Dates of Some Persons Referenced in the Book.