A collection of stories of American civil rights leaders past and present--from Mary Church Terrell fighting against segregation and Ida B. Wells and her exposé against lynching, to the Black Lives Matter movement and Nikole Hannah-Jones's "1619 Project."

Mary Church Terrell fights back against segregation -- Ida B. Wells exposes America's lynching epidemic -- Buck Franklin bears witness to the destruction of Black Wall Street -- Ned Cobb confronts racial inequality at work -- Dr. Ossian Sweet break through the color line to find a home in Detroit -- Pauli Murray discovers the key to ending segregation in schools -- Daisy Myers integrates the white suburbs -- Malcolm X launches a struggle against police brutality -- Fannie Lou Hamer takes back the right to vote -- James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Memphis's sanitation workers protest for equal pay -- John Carlos and Tommie Smith raise a fist for Black pride -- Ruth Batson uncovers segregation in Boston -- Michelle Alexander confronts the new Jim Crow -- Catherine Flowers, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, and Barack Obama expose America's crisis of environmental racism -- Yusef Salaam battles racial profiling -- Stacey Abrams leads the fight against voter suppression -- Dr. Susan Moore calls out America's unequal health care -- The Black Lives Matter movement opens the latest battle for racial equality -- Nikole Hannah-Jones taps into the power of history -- The story of inequality in America.