Part 1. Slavery: America's first compromise -- Part 2. Reconstruction -- Part 3. Segregation ; Repression of free blacks ; Black and progressive response -- Part 4. Second reconstruction ; Legal strategy ; Labor days ; Churches' hour ; Economic justice: the North has problems too ; Black power ; Electoral and street politics ; Discrimination: ongoing examples / Affirmative action -- Part 5. Backlash redux ; Roots of backlash ; Backlash -- Part 6. Toward a third reconstruction