Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction "Learn Your Horn": Jack O'Dell and the Long Civil Rights Movement Nikhil Pal Singh Part One: Tracing the Freedomway Report on Voter Registration Work, Southern Christian,Leadership Conference Foundations of Racism in American Life Editorial, Freedomways Special Issue on Mississippi The Threshold of a New Reconstruction A Colonized People The July Rebellions and the "Military State" Climbin' Jacob's Ladder: The Life and Times of the Freedom Movement Charleston's Legacy to the Poor People's Campaign Report of the Acting Executive Director, Southern Christian Leadership Conference A Rock in a Weary Lan': Paul Robeson's Leadership and "The Movement" in the Decade before Montgomery An Assessment: PUSH's First Five Years and Its Next Five On the Transition from Civil Rights to Civil Equality The Rainbow Coalition: Organizational Principles Part Two: Contemporary Reflections Democracy Charter Reclaiming the Second Reconstruction: Democracy, Class, and the Social Transformation of the United States Afterword: Growing Light in a Dark Time Editor's Note Index

About the Author

Jack O'Dell was Editor of Freedomways, a legendary publication that from 1961-1985 published Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Pablo Neruda, and Alice Walker, among many others. Nikhil Pal Singh is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University. He is the author of Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy.

Reviews

"O'Dell is an intelligent and astute writer, organizer, and leader... Singh's ... introduction is a valuable narrative of the social and intellectual history of the late 20th century, told from a perspective that has been too often missing... Important for students of the civil rights movement and US social History." Choice