Foreword: Full Circle / Charles E. Cobb
Introduction / Charles M. Payne
Pt. I. Projecting Imagination Beyond Circumstance
1. To Build a New Jerusalem / Steven Hahn
2. "We Are Rising as a People": The Content of Instruction in Freedmen's School / Robert C. Morris
Pt. II. Building the Army of Democracy
3. Birth of the Citizenship Schools: Entwining the Struggles for Literacy and Freedom / David Levine
4. "They Walk, Talk, and Act Like New People": Citizenship Education Program in Southeastern Georgia, 1960-1975 / Deanna M. Gillespie
5. "Give Light and the People Will Find a Way": Ella Baker and Teaching as Politics / Charles M. Payne
Pt. Ill. 1960s: From Freedom to Liberation
6. Prospectus for a Summer Freedom School Program / Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
7. Organizing Freedom Schools / Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
8. Freedom, Liberation, Accommodation: Politics and Pedagogy in SNCC and the Black Panther Party / Daniel Perlstein
9. Minds Still Stayed on Freedom? Reflections on Politics, Consensus, and Pedagogy in the African American Freedom Struggle / Fannie Theresa Rushing
10. "The World Is a Child's Classroom": An Analysis of the Black Panther Party's Oakland Community School / Charles E. Jones and Jonathan Gayles
Pt. IV. Sankofa: Looking Back to Look Forward-Contemporary Expressions of Education for Liberation
11. My Sister, My Brother, Myself: Critical Exploration of Sexism and Misogyny at the Brotherhood/Sister Sol / Susan Wilcox
12. And Who Gets to Define "Freedom"? An Exchange on the Sunflower County Freedom Project - May-June 2005 / William Ayers and Chris Myers Asch
13. Project Daniel: A Church-Based Enrichment Program of Liberation for African American Boys / Michael G. Hayes
14. "Freedom Is a Constant Struggle": The Story of the Bushwick School for Social Justice and Make the Road by Walking / Hollyce C. Giles
15. Black Student Leadership Network's Summer Freedom School Program / Sekou M. Franklin
16. P-O-W-E-R of Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools / Gale Seiler
17. Emancipatory Education Versus School-Based Violence Prevention / Randolph G. Potts
18. Profile of an Independent Black Institution: African-Centered Education at Work / Carol D. Lee
19. Rebel Musics: African Diaspora Popular Culture and Critical Literacy Pedagogies / Ernest Morrell
Afterword / Carol Sills Strickland.