This book concludes a 3-volume history of American race, violence, and democracy. As the book begins, King and his movement are one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. The quest to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 engages the conscience of the world, strains the civil rights coalition, and embroils King with the U.S. government. After Selma, freedom workers are murdered, but sharecroppers learn to read, dare to vote, and build their own political party, while Stokely Carmichael leaves the movement in frustration to proclaim his famous Black Power doctrine. King takes nonviolence into Northern urban ghettoes, exposing hatreds and fears no less virulent than those in the South. We watch King bring all his eloquence into dissent from the Vietnam War, and make an embattled decision to concentrate on poverty; we reach Memphis, the garbage workers' strike, and King's assassination.--From publisher description.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 981-992) and index.

I. Selma: The Last Revolution 1. Warning 2. Scouts 3. Dissent 4. Boxed In 5. Over the Bridge 6. The Call 7. Devil's Choice 8. The Ghost of Lincoln 9. Wallace and the Archbishop 10. And We Shall Overcome 11. Half-Inch Hailstones 12. Neutralize Their Anxieties 13. To Montgomery 14. The Stakes of History 15. Aftershocks 16. Bearings in a Whirlwind II. High Tide 17. Ten Feet Tall 18. Leaps of Faith 19. Gulps of Freedom 20. Fort Deposit

21. Watts and Hayneville 22. Fragile Alliance 23. Identity III. Crossroads in Freedom and War 24. Enemy Politics 25. Inside Out 26. Refugees 27. Break Points 28. Panther Ladies 29. Meredith March 30. Chicago 31. Valley Moments 32. Backlash IV. Passion 33. Spy Visions 34. Riverside 35. Splinters 36. King's Choice 37. New Year Trials 38. Memphis 39. Requiem.