Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-278) and index.
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