| Abbreviations | |
| Introduction: With God on Our Side: Faiths in Conflict | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | "I'm on My Way, Praise God": Mrs. Hamer's Fight for Freedom | 10 |
| Ch. 2 | High Priest of the Anti-Civil Rights Movement: The Calling of Sam Bowers | 49 |
| Ch. 3 | Douglas Hudgins: Theologian of the Closed Society | 82 |
| Ch. 4 | Inside Agitator: Ed King's Church Visits | 116 |
| Ch. 5 | Cleveland Sellers and the River of No Return | 152 |
| Conclusion: Clearburning: Fragments of a Reconciling Faith | 192 |
| Afterword | 195 |
| Notes | 205 |
| Acknowledgments | 255 |
| Selected Bibliography | 259 |
| Interviews | 267 |
| Index | 269 |
