• Contents
• Prologue: The Meaning of the Veil
1. The Force That Wins
2. The Model Community
3. The Self-Made Men
4. The Survival of the Race
5. The Settlement of the Negro Problem
6. The Rising People
7. The Lion and the Fox
8. The Train of Disfranchisement
9. The Leopard’s Spots
10. The Violence of Their Imagination
11. The Warring Ideals
12. The Tuskegee Machine
13. The Assault by the Toms
14. The Tragedy of Color
15. The Man Farthest Down
16. The Leader of the Race
17. The Morning Cometh
18. The Veil of History
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index

Robert J. Norrell is Bernadotte Schmitt Professor of History at the University of Tennessee.