The negro question at the turn of the century -- What the southern whites thought -- The official report on the Minnie Cox affair -- President Roosevelt gives his view -- The southern solution becomes national -- The negro refutation -- Southern democracy -- Progressive agriculture -- James E. Ferguson campaigns for office -- A fellow Texan looks at the Fergusons -- Sui generis: Huey Pierce Long, kingfish of Louisiana -- The primary: the weapon of the one-party system -- Workers and tenants in a backward economy -- Labor's view of southern mill work -- A northerner describes the southern textile strikes -- The spokesman for southern industrialization cries conspiracy -- A southern employer attempts to set higher standards -- An outline of landlord-tenant relationships -- A planter-landlord gives his view -- The STFU complains that the federal government has not done enough -- Freedom now: the southern negro at midcentury -- The state of civil rights in postwar America -- The "kids" lead the movement for freedom -- Mississippi's negroes organize a boycott -- The philosophy of nonviolence -- The South on the defensive -- A southerner in revolt -- The southern response to integration: interposition -- The southern response to integration: conspiracy -- The South betrayed -- The southern moderate speaks out.