Tables Acknowledgments Prologue: Misconceptions about Civil Rights Activists 1. The Civil Rights Movement: The River of Baptism 2. Tracking the Civil Rights Activists: How the Research Was Done 3. The Black Protest Generation in the 1970s and 1980s 4. The Divergent Politics of the White Generation 5. African American and White Activists Twenty-Five Years Later 6. Conclusion: Taking Stock Epilogue: Current Dilemmas and Future Prospects Appendix Notes References Index