Bruce J. Dierenfield is Professor Emeritus of History and the former director of the All-College Honors Program at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, USA. The prize-winning author of five other books, he has been a senior Fulbright scholar in Germany, held a Peter Canisius Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the African American Experience, and is a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.

Now in its second edition, The Civil Rights Movement recounts the story of how thousands of African Americans overcame segregation, exercised their right to vote, and improved their economic standing, and how millions more continue to fight for racial justice in the wake of continuing police killings of unarmed black men and women.

Part One: Up From Slavery 1. The Jim Crow South Part Two: Seeds of Change 2. Origins of the Black Freedom Struggle 3. The Making of Massive Resistance Part Three: The Assault on Jim Crow 4. Freedom Walkers 5. The Wayward Lieutenant 6. Freedom's on the Menu 7. Freedom Riders 8. The Battle of Ole Miss 9. Bombingham 10. Let Freedom Ring Part Four: The Voting Rights Campaign 11. Freedom Summer 12. Bloody Sunday Part Five: The Ghetto Explodes 13. Black Power Part Six: The Freedom Struggle Resumes 14. Black Lives Matter Part Seven: Documents