• America—'land of the free'?
• Towards a kind of freedom, 1863–77
• Race relations and civil rights, 1877–1917
• The inter-war years, 1920–41
• The Second World War and civil rights
• Post-war changed and the Civil Rights Movement
• The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the emergence of Martin Luther King, 1955–6
• Further protests in the south
• Success for the Civil Rights Movement, 1963–5
• Changes in the Civil Rights Movement, 1965–6
• The origins, nature and effects of Black Power
• The achievements of the Civil Rights Movement
• The politics of freedom and equality
• The struggle for black civil rights, 1865–1968
• The rights of labour
• The growing militancy of the Civil Rights Movement, 1950–80
• America—'the melting pot'.

Each of the books is a manageable topic giving students a clear sense of achievement as they work their way through. There are extra notes, biography boxes and definitions in the margin and summary boxes to help students assimilate the information.