Includes bibliographical references (p. [480]-493) and index
Introduction : second emancipation -- The cataclysm -- Let us continue -- "A fellow southerner in the White House" -- Hoover, King, and two presients -- A fire that no water could put out -- An idea whose time has come -- Lyndon Johnson and the Ku Klux Klan -- A political revolution -- Hoover attacks -- LBJ-MLK : a quiet alliance -- We shall overcome -- Shining moment -- This time the fire -- Another martyr -- Epilogue : the legacy