- Acknowledgments
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- 1. The Artistry of Argument
- Part I. Inside the Circle of the Tribe
- 2. The Geometry of Belonging
- 3. Brotherhood and Brotherhood
- 4. Backstage and Blackstage
- 5. Race Men and Real Men
- 6. The Prophetic Backstage
- Part II. Son of a (Black) Preacher Man
- 7. Flight from the Folk?
- 8. Homilies of Black Liberation
- 9. Raw and Refined
- Part III. King in the Mass Meetings
- 10. Beloved Black Community
- 11. The Physics of Deliverance
- 12. The Rationality of Defiance
- 13. The Courage to Be
- 14. Free Riders and Freedom Riders
- Part IV. Crossing over into Beloved Community
- 15. Artifice and Authenticity
- 16. Practicing What You Preach
- 17. Validating the Movement
- 18. The Allure of Rudeness
- 19. Black Interludes in the Crossover Moment
- Notes
- Index
- Illustrations:
- “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” Martin Luther King’s last speech, Memphis, April 3, 1968.
- Martin Luther King in the study of Ebenezer Baptist Church, 1961.
- Bernard Lee, Andrew Young, Robert Green, Martin Luther King, Lawrence Guyot, Harry Bowie, and Stokely Carmichael at a meeting during the Meredith March, June 1966.
- Reverend King at Ebenezer Baptist Church, November 8, 1964.
- Martin Luther King speaking at a rally in Jackson, Mississippi, June 1966.
- Martin Luther King with Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel on the Selma to Montgomery march, March 1965.