When and where I enter: the impact of Black women on race and sex in America

Part I. Inventing themselves

"To sell my life as dearly as possible": Ida B. Wells and the first anti-lynching campaign

Casting of the die: Morality, slavery, and resistance

To choose again, freely

Prelude to a movement

Defending our name

"To be a woman, sublime": The ideas of the National Black Women's club movement (to 1917)

The quest for woman suffrage (before World War I)

Part II. A world war and after: The "new negro" woman

Cusp of a new era

The radical interracialists

A new era: Toward Interracial cooperation

A search for self

Enter Mary McLeod Bethune

Black braintruster: Mary McLeod Bethune and the Roosevelt administration

A second World War and after

Part III. The unfinished revolution

Dress rehearsal for the sixties

SNCC: Coming full circle

The women's movement and black discontent

Strong women and strutting men: The Moynihan report

A failure of consensus

Outlook.