The abolitionist legacy: from Reconstruction to the NAACP

Ch. 1 Unfinished Task: The Civil Rights Act of 1875 13

Ch. 2 Reconstruction Reconfirmed? The Election of 1872 24

Ch. 3 Reconstruction Unravels, 1873-1876 35

Ch. 4 Time, Education, and Bootstraps 53

Ch. 5 The Compromise of 1877 81

Ch. 6 Crosscurrents and Confusion, 1877-1880 95

Ch. 7 The New South 107

Ch. 8 Good-bye to the Bloody Shirt 121

Ch. 9 The Roots of Freedmen's Education 143

Ch. 10 Between Black and White: Puritans in Babylon 161

Ch. 11 Paternalism and Piety 184

Ch. 12 Detour or Mainstream? The Curriculum of Missionary Schools 203

Ch. 13 The Segregation Issue 224

Ch. 14 Berea College 244

Ch. 15 The Struggle for Black Control 262

Ch. 16 The Shattering of Hope 299

Ch. 17 Women's Rights and Anti-Imperialism 318

Ch. 18 History and Biology 333

Ch. 19 Booker T. Washington and the Reaffirmation of Gradualism 354

Ch. 20 The Rejection of Gradualism and the Founding of the NAACP 368

Appendix A Abolitionists on Whom This Book is Based 395

Appendix B Southern Negro Colleges and Secondary Schools Established by Northern Mission Societies 409.