Introduction: Gendered contexts: civil rights, leadership, exodus politics, and African American literature
Is he the one?: the politics of gender and gender politics: civil rights activism and leadership in Ernest Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The refusal of Christ to accept crucifixion: bridge leadership refutes the paradoxes of exodus politics in Alice Walker's Meridian
The important thing is making generations: reconsidering reproduction and blues performances as forms of civil rights leadership in Gayl Jones' Corregidora
We all killed him the limits of (formal) leadership and civil rights legislation in Charles Johnson's Dreamer
Epilogue: Is there life after exodus politics?.