Climbin' Jacob's ladder : the Black freedom movement writings of Jack O'Dell / edited and introduced by Nikhil Pal Singh.

Introduction. "Learn Your Horn": Jack O'Dell and the Long Civil Rights Movement / Nikhil Pal Singh -- Pt. 1. Tracing the Freedomway -- Report on Voter Registration Work, Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- Foundations of Racism in American Life -- Editorial, Freedomways Special Issue on Mississippi -- The Threshold of a New Reconstruction -- A Colonized People -- The July Rebellions and the "Military State" -- Climbin' Jacob's Ladder: The Life and Times of the Freedom Movement -- Charleston's Legacy to the Poor People's Campaign -- Report of the Acting Executive Director, Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- A Rock in a Weary Lan': Paul Robeson's Leadership and "The Movement" in the Decade before Montgomery -- An Assessment: PUSH's First Five Years and Its Next Five -- On the Transition from Civil Rights to Civil Equality -- The Rainbow Coalition: Organizational Principles -- Pt. 2. Contemporary Reflections -- Democracy Charter -- Reclaiming the Second Reconstruction: Democracy, Class, and the Social Transformation of the United States -- Afterword: Growing Light in a Dark Time.

"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--Prelim. pages.

Includes bibliographical references and index.