Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part one. A movement education
  • The nonviolent anvil
  • Come get my mattress and I'll keep my soul : freedom riding
  • The inner life of recruiting
  • Part two. How democracy travels
  • Bridges to the North
  • Testing the southern blueprint
  • SNCC teaches SDS how to act
  • Part three. Delta civics : fashioning a new America
  • The core struggle
  • The high summer of transformation
  • Part four. Movement ecology
  • Contact with power : Atlantic City
  • Desperate initiatives : Waveland
  • Vertigo
  • Not quite there : the search for enduring ground
  • Conclusion: Freedom as an inside job
  • Afterword: Beyond sacred ground
  • Appendix A: We'll never turn back : freedom songs
  • Appendix B: Affidavits
  • Appendix C: The other sacred ground
  • Appendix D: Incidents of violence against voter registration activities in Mississippi, 1964
  • Appendix E: James Forman's speech at Waveland, November 1964
  • Appendix F: Suggested structures for SNCC, November 1964
  • Appendix G: Structure debate at Waveland
  • Appendix H: SNCC as the borning struggle.