PART ONE: LEADERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA.

Absalom Jones and Richard Allen.

Lemuel Haynes.

John Marrant.

Denmark Vesey.

PART TWO: LEADERS OF THE CIVILWAR ERA.

Sojourner Truth.

Nat Turner.

Maria Stewart.

John Jasper.

Alexander Crummell and Henry Highland Garnett.

PART THREE: LEADERS OF THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA AND THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY.

Henry McNeal Turner.

Richard Henry Boyd.

Vernon Johns.

Elijah Muhammad.

Howard Thurman.

PART FOUR: LEADERS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Joseph E. Lowery.

Malcolm X.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Andrew J. Young.

John Lewis.

PART FIVE: LEADERS OF TODAY.

Vashti Murphy McKenzie.

Frederick J. Streets.

Al Sharpton.

Renita J. Weems.

T. D. Jakes.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Picture Credits.

Index.