Introduction: Martin Luther King, Jr., and political philosophy / Brandon M. Terry and Tommie Shelby
Part I. Traditions: The Du Bois-Washington debate and the idea of dignity / Robert Gooding-Williams
Moral perfectionism / Paul C. Taylor
The roots of civil disobedience in republicanism and slavery / Bernard R. Boxill
Showdown for nonviolence: the theory and practice of nonviolent politics / Karuna mantena
Part II. Ideals: From anger to love: self-purification and political resistance / Martha C. Nussbaum
The prophetic tension between race consciousness and the ideal of colorblindness / Ronald Sundstrom
Integration, freedom, and the affirmation of life / Danielle Allen
A vindication of voting rights / Derrick Darby
Part III. Justice: Prisons of the forgotten: ghettos and economic injustice / Tommie Shelby
Gender trouble: manhood, inclusion, and justice / Shatema Threadcraft and Brandon M. Terry
Living "in the red": time, debt, and justice / Lawrie Balfour
The costs of violence: militarism, geopolitics, and accountability / Lionel McPherson
Part IV. Conscience: The path of conscientious citizenship / Michele Moody-Adams
Requiem for a dream: the problem-space of black power / Brandon M. Terry
Hope and despair: past and present / Cornel West
Afterword: a sense of somebodiness: dignity as a weapon of love / Jonathan L. Walton.