Foreword: Deep South campus memories and the world the sixties made / Dan T. Carter
Introduction: Prophetic minority versus recalcitrant majority: Southern student dissent and the struggle for progressive change in the 1960s / Robert Cohen
pt. I. Early days: from talk to action.
Freedom now! SNCC galvanizes the new left / Wesley Hogan
Student free speech on both sides of the color line in Mississippi and the Carolinas / Joy Ann Williamson-Lott
Interracial dialogue and the Southern Student Human Relations Project / Erica L. Whittington
Moderate white activists and the struggle for racial equality on South Carolina campuses / Marcia G. Synnott
pt. II. Campus activism takes shape.
The rise of black and white student protest in Nashville / Jeffrey A. Turner
Student radicalism and the antiwar movement at the University of Alabama / Gary S. Sprayberry
Conservative student activism at the University of Georgia / Christopher A. Huff
pt. III. A cultural revolution and its discontents.
Sexual liberation at the University of North Carolina / Kelly Morrow
The counterculture as local culture in Columbia, South Carolina / Nicholas G. Meriwether
Government repression of the Southern new left / Gregg L. Michel
pt. IV. Black Power and the legacy of the freedom movement.
North Carolina A&T Black Power activists and the Student Organization for Black Unity / Jelani Favors
Black Power and the freedom movement in retrospect / Cleveland L. Sellers Jr.
Historical reflections / Doug Rossinow
Afterword / David T. Farber.