Table of Contents for Now Is Your Time! : The African-american Struggle for Freedom


Introduction ix
The Land
1(10)
Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima
11(17)
The Plantation Society
28(8)
To Make a Slave
36(8)
The United States of America!
44(9)
James Forten
53(11)
We the People...
64(7)
To Be a Slave
71(13)
Fighting Back
84(13)
George Latimer
97(13)
The Dred Scott Case
110(7)
John Brown
117(13)
Secession
130(9)
The Bower
139(14)
We Look Like Men of War
153(15)
Fort Wagner
168(13)
The First Taste of Freedom
181(14)
Ida B. Wells
195(21)
Lewis Howard Latimer
216(14)
The Battle in the Courts
230(5)
Meta Vaux Warrick
235(15)
Brown vs. Board of Education
250(9)
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Modern Civil Rights Movement
259(13)
Afterword 272(3)
Author's Note 275(3)
Select Bibliography 278(4)
Index 282