Part 1: From protest to incorporation: a framework for analysis of civil rights movement outcomes

Part 2: The national black political convention 1972-84

Continuity and innovation in post-civil rights era black organization

Part 3: Black incorporation and institutionalization in the post-civil rights era: leading America and leading blacks

Blacks and presidential policy making: neglect, policy, symbols, and cooptation

Blacks in congressional decision making: a policy consensus on civil rights, 1970-1994

Blacks in congressional decision making: the Humphrey-Hawkins act as symbolic politics

Blacks in congressional decision making: neglect and invisibility on social and economic reform

Part 4: Symbolic politics at high tide: Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition

Racial symbolism as "ideology" in the post-civil rights era, and a postscript on the Clinton administration and the 1994 election

Part 5: From incorporation toward irrelevance: the Afro-American freedom struggle in the 21st century

Appendix: A comparison of Democratic party platform language on full employment, 1944-92.