1. Jim Crow and the limits of freedom, 1890-1940 -- 2. The politics of the disfranchised -- 3. Education: the "mere faint gesture" -- 4. Farmers without land -- 5. Black labor/black capital -- 6. Jim Crow's court -- 7. Judge lynch's court -- 8. "Northboun' ": Mississippi's Black diaspora -- 9. The gathering challenge