Introduction
How civil rights lawyers emerged
Children of the South / Fred Gray
The making of a lawyer / Barbara Phillips
How I became a civil rights lawyer / Jack Drake
From Gardendale, Alabama / Laughlin McDonald
Growing up in Winnsboro, South Carolina / Larry Menefee
Growing up in Bama
Children of the north / Armand Derfner
Growing up in the shadow of the holocaust / John C. Brittain
Growing up on the Gold Coast / David Lipman
Race consciousness / Mac Farmer
Why did I go? / Kent Spriggs
Growing up in Washington, D.C.
The context of civil rights litigation
Big events / Fred Gray
Selma once more: the 1965 Selma March / Larry Aschenbrenner
The first damages judgment against the KKK / Larry Aschenbrenner and Armand Derfner
Democratic convention in Chicago: white Mississippi delegation barred / Reber Boult
Senator McClellan seeks to prove SNCC is communist / Armand Derfner
Miscegenation comes to Mississippi / Norm Siegel
The full court press for voting rights in Alabama / Larry Aschenbrenner
Mississippi seeks to ban the civil rights lawyers
The tenor of the times / Larry Aschenbrenner
Mass meetings, demonstrations, and boycotts / Barbara Lipman
Being married to a civil rights lawyer / Jim Lewis
From civil rights worker to civil rights lawyer / Dennis Roberts
B. King, iconic civil rights lawyer / Bill Ferguson
Seeking justice for a blind black man in front of Judge Cox / Kent Spriggs
"Summer vacation" in Mississippi / Larry Aschenbrenner
Get a bullet in your car at the law library / Henry Aronson
The politics of civil rights lawyering / Kent Spriggs
The Rev. C.K. Steele and racism in Tallahassee / Elliott C. Lichtman
Mississippi notes / Armand Derfner
Opening up the closed society
Arrests of lawyers (and other "minor indignities") / John C. Brittain
Arrests while practicing law in Mississippi / Armand Derfner
Doing a little time in Holly Springs / Mac Farmer
Elements of procedure I missed at Harvard Law School / Kent Spriggs
Arrests, a beating, and a moment of weakness / Richard Sobol
Arrested by Leander Perez Sr. / Henry Aronson
Getting punched by Sheriff Clark and other misadventures / David Lipman
Get a rifle barrel in the mouth for monitoring an election in Belzoni / Constance Slaughter-Harvey
A very bad morning in Rankin County
Modes of law practice / Fred Banks
538{1/2}: the Legal Defense Fund office in Mississippi / Richard Sobol
Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee in Louisiana / Mac Farmer
Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee in Mississippi / Armand Derfner
It changed my life: lawyers constitutional rights committee in Mississippi / Larry Aschenbrenner
The formation of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law / Larry Menefee
Private practice in Alabama / Jack Drake
Nonprofit and private practice in Alabama
Basic legal rights
Access to justice / Armand Derfner
The friendly judicial climate
Voting rights and political representation / Richard Sobol
Voting shenanigans in Madison Parish / Fred Banks
Rights lawyers emerge into politics / Laughlin McDonald
Voting rights in Edgefield County / Larry Menefee
Challenging at-large elections / Larry Aschenbrenner
Mississippi pushes back against the Voting Rights Act / David Lipman
Voting in LeFlore County
Public accommodations / Solomon Seay
Solomon Seay seeks public accommodation / Don Marmaduke
Desegregating the Neshoba County courthouse / Richard Tuttle
Integrating the Fox Theatre / Richard Sobol
Trying to get service at Bill's Highway 80 24-hour Truck Stop / Larry Aschenbrenner
Integrating the Admiral Benbow Inn swimming pool / Henry Aronson
Desegregating the Parliament House Hotel
School desegregation and municipal equalization / John Maxey
Ulysses S. Grant's legacy / David Lipman
School desegregation and municipal equalization / Fred Banks
The Legal Defense Fund's massive effort / Kent Spriggs
Desegregating schools in northern Mississippi
Employment discrimination / Richard Sobol
Crown Zellerbach becomes the standard / Kent Spriggs
The perfectly segregated plant in the perfectly segregated town / Kent Spriggs
Monsanto: fair employment comes to a megaplant
How the civil rights movement and litigation advanced other movements for social justice
Constitutional race-based litigation and the friendly judicial climate lead to other areas of constitutional litigation / Jack Drake
The constitution comes to the state residential hospitals / David Lipman
The rule of law comes to infamous Parchman Prison
How the civil rights movement and litigation informed other movements for social justice / Barbara Phillips
The legacy of other social justice movements / Mac Farmer
Rights in Mississippi informs LGBT concerns
Framing the contemporary dialogue of race / Barbara Phillips
The Trojan horse called "diversity" / Larry Menefee
White supremacy lives
Conclusion.