Introduction: the struggle over memory / Leigh Raiford, Renee C. Romano --
Interpreting the Civil Rights movement: contradiction, confirmation, and the cultural landscape / Owen J. Dwyer --
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the new ideology of tolerance / Glenn Eskew --
Street names as memorial arenas: the reputational politics of commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. in a Georgia county / Derek H. Alderman --
Narrative of redemption: the Birmingham Church bombing trials and the construction of Civil Rights memory / Renee C. Romano --
The good, the bad, and the forgotten: media culture and public memory of the Civil Rights movement / Edward P. Morgan --
Debating the present through the past: representations of the Civil Rights movement in the 1990s / Jennifer Fuller --
Integration as disintegration: remembering the Civil Rights movement as a struggle for self-determination in John Sayles's Sunshine state / Tim Libretti --
Restaging revolution: black power, Vibe magazine, and photographic memory / Leight Raiford --
Down to now: memory, narrative, and women's leadership in the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta, Georgia / Kathryn L. Nasstrom --
Engendering movement memories: remembering race and gender in the Mississippi movement / Steve Estes --
Deaf rights, civil rights: the Gallaudet "deaf president now" strike and historical memory of the Civil Rights movement / R.A.R. Edwards --
Riding in the back of the bus: the Christian Right's adoption of Civil Rights movement rhetoric / David John Marley --
Rosa Parks, c'est moi / Sarah Vowell.