Prologue: Before Brown in the West / by Jean Van Delinder
Part I: The Far West
The Pacific Northwest / by Kevin A. Leonard
The Struggle on Multiple Planes: California's Long Civil Rights Movement / by Herbert G. Ruffin II
The Civil Rights Movement in Nevada / by Elmer R. Rusco
Part II. The Mountain States and Desert Southwest
Breaking Racial Barriers: Civil Rights Movements in Montana and Wyoming / by Kenneth G. Robison
5. The Modern Civil Rights Movement in Colorado / by George H. Junne Jr.
Civil Rights in Utah: The Mormon Way / by J. Herschel Barnhill
Blacks and Whites Together: Interracial Leadership in the Phoenix, Arizona Civil Rights Movement / by Mary S. Melcher
The Modern Civil Rights Movement in New Mexico / by George M. Cooper
Part III. The Upper Midwest
Civil Rights in the Dakotas / by Betti VanEpps-Taylor
The Modern Civil Rights Movement in Iowa and Minnesota / by Donald H. Strasser and Melodie Andrews
Challenging the Color Line in Kansas and Nebraska: The Revolution at a Regional Nexus / James N. Leiker
Part IV: The South and the West Collide
Conceived in Segregation and Dedicated to the Proposition that All Men Were Not Created Equal: Oklahoma the Last Southern State / by Paul Finkelman
The Civil Rights Movement in Texas / by Alwyn Barr
Epilogue: Western Civil Rights Since 1970 / by Albert S. Broussard.