Previously published in 2000 under the title Magill's Choice: The Civil Rights Movement.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 683-704) and index.

Volume 1: Publisher's Note. Introduction. Complete List of Contents. List of Contributors. Abolition -- Abortion Rights -- Accommodationism -- ACT UP -- Adarand Constructors v. Peña -- Affirmative Action -- African American-American Indian Relations -- African American Baptist Church -- African American Women -- Afrocentrism -- Aid to Families with Dependent Children -- AIDS Conspiracy Theory -- AIDS Crisis -- Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education -- All African People's Revolutionary Party -- AME Church -- AME Zion Churches -- American Anti-Slavery Society -- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) -- American Council on Race Relations -- Americans with Disabilities Act -- American Indian Movement (AIM) -- Amistad Slave Revolt -- Anti-Semitism in America -- Antislavery Laws of 1777 and 1807 -- Atlanta Compromise -- Attica Prison Uprising -- Bakke Case -- Banking Practices -- Baseball -- Batson v. Kentucky -- Biracialism -- Black Cabinet -- Black Church -- Black Codes -- Black Colleges and Universities -- Black Conservatism -- Black Flight -- Black Is Beautiful Movement -- Black Lives Matter -- Black Middle Class/Black Underclass Relations -- Black Nationalism -- Black-on-black Violence -- Black Panther Party -- Black Power Movement -- Blackness and Whiteness: Legal Definitions -- Bleeding Kansas -- Body of Liberties -- Bolling v. Sharpe -- Bracero Program -- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- Brown v. Board of Education -- John Brown's Raid -- Buchanan v. Warley -- Busing and Integration.

Volume 1 (con't): Censuses, U.S. -- Charleston Church Shooting -- Charleston Race Riots -- César Chávez -- Chicano Movement -- Church Burnings -- Citizens' Councils -- Civil Disobedience -- Civil Liberties -- Civil Rights -- Civil Rights Act of 1957 -- Civil Rights Act of 1960 -- Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- Civil Rights Act of 1968 -- Civil Rights Act of 1991 -- Civil Rights Acts of 1866-1875 -- Civil Rights Cases -- Civil Rights Movement -- Civil Rights Restoration Act -- Civil War and African Americans -- Class Theories of Racial/Ethnic Relations -- Clinton Massacre -- Clinton's Initiative on Race -- Colegrove v. Green -- Coleman Report -- Colfax Massacre -- Colin Kaepernick Taking a Knee -- College Admissions -- College Entrance Examinations -- Color of Law -- Colored Women's League -- Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. -- Compromise of 1850 -- Compromise of 1877 -- Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862 -- Congress of Racial Equality -- Congressional Black Caucus -- Conservative Theorists -- Constitutional Racism -- Cooper v. Aaron -- Council of Federated Organizations -- Crime and Race/Ethnicity -- Criminal Justice Reform -- Critical Race Theory -- Culture of Poverty -- Daughters of Bilitis -- Desegregation of the Defense Industry -- Desegregation of Public Schools -- Detroit Riot -- Disability Rights Movement -- Discrimination -- Discrimination: Behaviors -- Discrimination: Racial and Ethnic -- Disfranchisement Laws in Mississippi -- Don't Ask, Don't Tell -- Drugs and Racial/Ethnic Relations -- Ebonics -- Economics and Race -- Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company -- Education and African Americans -- Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 -- Education and Racial/Ethnic Relations -- Election of Barack Obama -- Emancipation Proclamation -- Employment among African Americans -- Entitlement Programs Environmental Racism -- Equal Educational Opportunity -- Equal Employment Opportunity Act -- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission -- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) -- Equality -- Equality of Opportunity.

Volume 1 (con't): Fair Employment Practices Committee -- Fair Housing Act -- Ferguson/Shooting of Michael Brown -- Fifteenth Amendment -- Flint Water Crisis -- Fourteenth Amendment -- Free African Society -- Free Blacks -- Free-Soil Party -- Freedmen's Bureau -- Freedom Riders -- Freedom Summer -- Betty Friedan -- Fugitive Slave Laws -- Fullilove v. Klutznick -- Gallaudet University Protests -- Mohandas K. Gandhi -- Gentrification -- Gideon v. Wainwright -- Grandfather Clauses -- Great Migration -- Green v. County School Board of New Kent County -- Greensboro Sit-ins -- Griffin v. Breckenridge -- Griggs v. Duke Power Company -- Grovey v. Townsend -- Grutter v. Bollinger -- Guinn v. United States -- Haitians and Haitian Refugees -- Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections -- Head Start -- Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States -- Hernández v. Texas -- Homelessness -- Housing -- Hypersegregation -- "I Have a Dream" Speech -- Ideological Racism -- Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 -- Individual Racism -- Inequality -- Institutional Racism -- Integration -- Intelligence and Race -- Internal Colonialism -- Internalized Racism -- Interracial and Interethnic Marriage -- Japanese Internment Camps -- Jewish-African American Relations -- Jim Crow Laws -- Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Company -- Judicial Review -- Jury Selection -- Kansas-Nebraska Act -- Kerner Report -- Keyes v. Denver School District No. 1 -- King, Martin Luther, Jr. -- Great Migration -- Green v. County School Board of New Kent County -- Greensboro Sit-ins -- Griffin v. Breckenridge -- Griggs v. Duke Power Company -- Grovey v. Townsend -- Grutter v. Bollinger -- Guinn v. United States -- Haitians and Haitian Refugees -- Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections -- Head Start -- Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States -- Hernández v. Texas -- Homelessness -- Housing -- Hypersegregation -- "I Have a Dream" Speech -- Ideological Racism -- Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 -- Individual Racism -- Inequality -- Institutional Racism -- Integration -- Intelligence and Race -- Internal Colonialism -- Internalized Racism -- Interracial and Interethnic Marriage -- Japanese Internment Camps -- Jewish-African American Relations -- Jim Crow Laws -- Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Company -- Judicial Review -- Jury Selection -- Kansas-Nebraska Act -- Kerner Report -- Keyes v. Denver School District No. 1 -- King, Martin Luther, Jr. -- Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination -- Rodney King Case -- Know-Nothing Party -- Ku Klux Klan -- Ku Klux Klan Acts.

Volume 2: Labor Movement -- Lau v. Nichols -- Lawrence v. Texas -- LGBT Rights -- Liberator, The -- Lincoln-Douglas Debates -- Literacy Tests -- Little Rock School Desegregation -- Los Angeles Riots of 1992 -- Lynchings -- Malcolm X Assassination -- March on Washington -- Marshall, Thurgood -- Mattachine Society -- McCleskey v. Kemp -- Me Too Movement -- Miami Riots of 1980 -- Military and Racial/Ethnic Relations -- Military Desegregation -- Milk, Harvey -- Milliken v. Bradley -- Million Man March -- Million Woman March -- Minority and Majority Groups -- Miranda v. Arizona -- Miscegenation Laws -- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party -- Missouri Compromise -- Montgomery Bus Boycott -- Moose Lodge No. v. Irvis -- Morrill Land Grant Act of 1890 -- Moynihan Report -- Multiracial Movement -- Naïveté Explanation of Racism -- Nation of Islam -- National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund -- National Association of Colored Women -- National Black Women's Political Leadership Caucus -- National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America -- National Council of Colored People -- National Council of Negro Women -- National Organization for Women (NOW) -- National Urban League -- Negro Conventions -- New York City Slave Revolt -- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan -- Newberry v. United States -- Niagara Movement -- Nineteenth Amendment -- Nixon v. Herndon -- Nonviolent Resistance -- North Star, The -- Obergefell v. Hodges -- Occupation of Wounded Knee -- Ole Miss Desegregation -- One-drop Rule -- Operation Wetback -- Orangeburg Massacre.

Volume 2 (con't): Pan-Africanism -- Pasadena City Board of Education v. Spangler -- Passing -- Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery -- Plessy v. Ferguson -- Police Brutality -- Police Shootings of Black Citizens -- Poll Tax -- Poverty and Race -- President's Committee on Civil Rights -- Proposition 209 -- Proslavery Argument -- Psychology of Racism -- Quotas -- Race as a Concept -- Race Relations Cycle -- Race Riots of 1866 -- Race Riots of 1943 -- Race Riots of the Twentieth Century -- Racial and Ethnic Demographics: Trends -- Racism as an Ideology -- Racism: Changing Nature of -- Racism: History of the Concept -- Rainbow Coalition -- R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul -- Reconstruction -- Redemption Period -- Redistricting -- Redlining -- Reitman v. Mulkey -- Removal of Confederate Statues and Monuments -- Reparations -- Restrictive Covenants -- Reverse Racism -- Reynolds v. Sims -- Richmond v. J. A. Croson Company -- Roe v. Wade -- Roosevelt Coalition -- Rosie the Riveter -- Runyon v. McCrary -- Scott v. Sandford -- Scottsboro Trials -- The Second Sex -- Segregation -- Segregation on the Frontier -- Segregation vs. Integration -- Self-segregation -- Selma-Montgomery March -- Seneca Falls Convention -- Separatism -- Set-asides -- Sexual Fears and Racism -- Sharecropping -- Shaw v. Reno -- Shelby County v. Holder -- Shelley v. Kraemer -- Shooting of Trayvon Martin -- O. J. Simpson Trial -- Slave Codes -- Slave Rebellions -- Slavery and Race Relations -- Slavery and the Justice System -- Slavery: History -- Slavery: North American beginnings -- Smith v. Allwright -- Social Identity Theory -- Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- Southern Conference for Human Welfare -- Sports -- Steinem, Gloria -- Stereotype -- Stonewall Uprising -- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- Summit Meeting of National Negro Leaders -- Supreme Court and Ethnic Representation -- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education -- Sweatt v. Painter -- Symbolic Racism.