My Mind Set on Freedom

John A. Salmond is professor of American history at La Trobe University in Australia. He has written widely on Southern history and is author of Gastonia, 1929: The Conscience of a Lawyer; and A Southern Rebel.

• Part 1 Preface ixPart 2 THE GATHERING STORM 3Chapter 3 First legal challenges. The New Deal. Regional protest groups. Local organizations. The Emmett Till case. The Brown decision announced.Part 4 THE SCHOOLHOUSE DOOR 27Chapter 5 Reaction to the Brown decision. Autherine Lucy. Crisis at Little Rock. Massive resistance. James Meredith at Ole Miss. George Wallace and the University of Alabama.Part 6 "I HAVE A DREAM" 51Chapter 7 The Montgomery Bus Boycott. The rise of martin Luther King, Jr. King's philosophy. The formation of SCLC. Failure at Albany. The Birmingham campaign. Kennedy's involvement. The March on Washington.Part 8 "SITTING-IN FOR JUSTICE, RIDING FOR FREEDOM" 81Chapter 9 The Greensboro movement. The movement spreads. Freedom Rides. Origins of SNCC. The Voting Rights campaign. "Freedom Summer." Malcolm X.Part 10 THE NATIONAL RESPONSE 106Chapter 11 The Eisenhower administration. The election of 1960. Kennedy and civil rights. The Civil Rights Act of 1964. White backlash. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic party. The election of 1964.Part 12 THE END OF THE MOVEMENT 12713 The Selma campaign. The Voting Rights Act of 1965. The end of school segregation. Collapse of the movement. "Black power." King's Chicago sojourn. The "Poor People's campaign." The death of Martin Luther King.Part 14 THE NEW SOUTH 149Chapter 15 Effect of the Voting Rights Act. Black political participation. School desegregation and its effects. Southern justice. The wealth disparity. King's legacy.Part 16 A Note on Sources 165Part 17 Index 169

Salmond packs it all in...a powerful education on the civil rights movement that deserves a wide audience.