Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Selma to Montgomery: An Unfinished Agenda by Tavis Smiley.

PART ONE: "CIVIL RIGHT NO. 1."

1. Voices.

2. The Crucible: How Bloody Sunday at the Edmund Pettus Bridge Changed Everything by Clayborne Carson.

PART TWO: ARITHMETIC OF POWER.

3. Voices.

4. The Partisan Landscape: How Blacks Became the Indispensable Democrats by Ronald Walters.

5. New Dilemmas: Redistricting and Racial Politics by Carol M. Swain.

6. One Vote, Once Color: Understanding the Connection between Racial Identity and Voting Preferences by Kenny J. Whitby.

PART THREE: BRIDGES TO CROSS.

7. Voices.

8. Beyond Racial Politics, or Not? Chicago's Experiment in Coalition Politics by Keith W. Reeves.

9. Losing the Right to Vote: The Impact Felony Disenfranchisement by Jamie Fellner and Marc Mauer.

PART FOUR: PARALLEL STRUGGLES.

10. Voices.

11. Sisters in the Struggle: Reflections on Black Women's Activism by Gayle T. Tate.

12. Indian Voters: Awakening a Sovereign Capacity by David E. Wilkins (Lumbee) and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe).

13. Latino Voters: Lessons Learned and Misunderstood by Louis DeSipio.

14. Asian American Voters: A Challenging Diversity by Pei-te Lien.

PART FIVE ADVANCING THE AGENDA.

15. Keeping the Promise: Why Voting Still Matters by Theodore M. Shaw and Debo P. Adegbile.

16. Where Do We Go from Here? A Vision for a New Black Politics by Manning Marable.

Timeline in Civil Rights History.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965, Sections 1 Through 11.

Notes.

Contributors.

Index.