Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: The Arc of the Moral Universe in Boston -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Origins of Slavery, Freedom, and Jim Crow in the Cradle of Liberty, 1638-1896 -- Chapter Two. Boston Confronts a Jim Crow North, 1896-1934 -- Chapter Three. Small Victories on the Way to Freedom, 1934-1945 -- Chapter Four. Mobilizing for Freedom: Community-Based Activism in the Post-World War II Era, 1949-1965 -- Chapter Five. Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud, 1967-1970 -- Chapter Six. Boston, Not Birmingham: Busing as Boston's "Reconstruction," 1965-1988 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y