Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-301) and index.
Historical background -- The Colfax Massacre -- Black resistance -- Contempt of court -- Brownsville -- The NAACP -- Continued white resistance -- Leo Frank -- The Waco horror -- The U.S. Supreme Court and due process -- The blowtorch killings at Duck Hill -- Cultural shifts -- Martyrs before and after 1954 -- Byron De La Beckwith -- Impact and legacy -- United States v. Shipp -- Moore, et al. v. Dempsey -- The Scottsboro boys -- Brown v. Mississippi -- "The South kills another Negro" -- The taxicab lynching -- Emmett Till -- Key people, laws, and concepts