Table of contents : Introduction : Soul of change -- Weight. I am a man / Jesse Epps -- Dream is a good place to start / Endesha Holland -- King of the blues / B.B. King -- Twisted steel and sex appeal / Sputnik Monroe -- Gentleman of the press / Vernon Jarrett -- Skin dive / Dr. Sammy Lee -- American Gandhi / James Lawson -- Birth of Elvis / Jim Dickinson -- Jump-off point / Jerome Smith -- "Like little tortures each day" / Carol Swann-Daniels -- We shall not be moved. Blinding flash opened our eyes / Carolyn McKinstry -- Justice never sleeps / William Baxley -- Veil of amnesia / Diane McWhorter -- Heaven can wait / Joseph Lowery -- Cracking the system / Raylawni Branch -- Louisiana moon / Maurice Landrieu -- Wake up, Washington! / Rachelle Horowitz -- Brutal truth / Karl Fleming -- Mother courage / Carolyn Goodman -- Hour of power / Alvin Poussaint -- Love story in black and white / Constancia Romilly -- Hard-wired for freedom / Heather Booth -- Help from on high / Curtis Graves -- At history's elbow / Samuel Kyles -- Wings of the future. Founding sisters / Susan Brownmiller -- Unprincipled principal / Jose Angel Gutierrez -- Shooting for big fish / Diane Wilson -- Wheels of progress / Michelle Steger -- Threads in the civil rights quilt / Barney Frank -- Rewriting the lies / Suzan Harjo -- Latino underground railroad / John Fife -- More perfect union / Tawanda Murray -- Living hope / Eugene Rivers -- Afterword / Marion Wright Edelman.