Reassessing the history of the civil rights movement -- The politics of civil rights history / Julian Bond -- Community as a liberating theme in civil rights history / Vincent Harding -- The march on Washington : the zenith of the southern movement / James Farmer -- Municipal politics and the course of the movement / J. Mills Thornton III -- One thing we did right : reflections on the movement / Robert J. Norrell -- Southern reformers, the New Deal, and the movement's foundation / Patricia Sullivan -- The NAACP in North Carolina during the age of segregation / Raymond Gavins -- Racial equality and the United Nations Charter / Robert L. Harris, Jr. -- Civil rights and social equity : beyond neoclassical theory / Ray Marshall -- Economic consequences of the Southern protest movement / Gavin Wright -- From boycotts to ballots : the reshaping of national politics / Steven F. Lawson -- Toward a synthesis of civil rights history / August Meier