Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Native American movements in the Americas; Chapter 3. The African-American experience from slavery to the Great Depression; Chapter 4. The emergence of the civil rights movement in the 1940s and 1950s; Chapter 5. The peak of the campaign for civil rights 1960-65; Chapter 6. The achievement of the civil rights movement by 1968; Chapter 7. The growth of Black Power in the 1960s; Chapter 8.

Youth protest movements in the Americas; Chapter 9: Feminist movements in the Americas; Chapter 10. Hispanic American movement in the United States; Chapter 11. Exam practice; Further Reading; Index.