Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: "[D]e understandin' to go 'long wid it": Storytelling and (the) Civil Rights Movement; 1 From Alabama to Tahrir Square: Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story Comic as Civil Rights Narrative; 2 Inviting Compassion and Caring through Testimony: Participants in the Civil Rights Movement Speak for Themselves; 3 "Tomorrow's Great Meeting Place": Collective Autobiographies of the Civil Rights Movement
4 "God Decreed It So": The Rhetoric of Destiny in 19635 Back to Birmingham: Three Poets Remember the Sixteenth Street Church Bombing; 6 "Pass It On!": Legacy and the Freedom Struggle in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon; 7 "Living Proof of Something So Terrible": Pearl Cleage's Bourbon at the Border and the Politics of Civil Rights History and Memory; 8 "A Living Theater" for Human Rights: Jill Freedman's Old News and Visual Legacies of the 1968 Poor People's Campaign; 9 "Gettin' Ready to Ride into History": Spike Lee's Get on the Bus and Sites of Memory
10 "My Childhood Is Ruined!": Harper Lee and Racial InnocenceAppendix of Additional Teaching Sources; Index
