Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000

Acknowledgements vi Preface xi 1 The Future of Reconstruction and the Triumph of White Supremacy 1 2 Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching 23 3 Booker T. Washington and the Strategy of Accommodation 41 4 The Rise of the NAACP 67 5 The Great War and Racial Equality 87 6 Marcus Garvey and the UNIA 111 7 The Radical Thirties 133 8 Blacks in the Segregated South, 1919-42 161 9 The NAACP's Challenge to White Supremacy, 1935-45 181 10 Two Steps Forward and One Step Back, 1946-55 203 11 The Nonviolent Rebellion, 1955-60 227 12 The Civil Rights Movement, 1960-63 249 13 Birmingham, the Freedom Summer, and Selma 273 14 The Rise and Fall of Black Power 295 15 The Continuing Struggle 323 Notes 337 Index 371