By hands now known: Jim Crow's legal executioners

"A new version of the old, old story"

"Mr. Ford's place"

"That dusky hospital on DeVilliers Street"

Bentonia blues

The one-way ride on Airline Highway

Resisting rendition

Who stays up north, who goes back down south

The Color Board

POB Noxubee, POD back of the bus

A bus in Hayti

"Us colored... sat where we wanted to"

Double V on the bus

The departments: war and justice

The "Negro Transportation" file

Reconstruction statutes, Jim Crow rules

"Her hips looked like battered liver"

"A little quick on the trigger"

"The testimony... of the Negroes seems more probable"

"Head... soft as a piece of cotton"

"None of Washington's business"

"Look to the states"

A "patently local crime"

"Victim... of a quarrelsome nature"

"Bad Birmingham"

Negroes are restless

"Mr. Van"

"Negro youth, shot near white residence, dies"

Abduction

"Negro leaders cry for justice in kidnap outrage"

Black captive, white capture

Redress

"Found floating in river... cause of death unknown"

"A fight with some sailors"

Owed? What? And by whom?

Epilogue.