Foreword / Preparing for the Journey: The Search for a New Identity -- The Courts and the Search for a Passage -- The Search for a Moses: The Effect of Leadership -- Obstacles to the Journey: Conflict in the Strategy -- Martin Luther King, Jr.: Sighting the Promised Land -- Civil Rights Legislation: Vehicle to the Promised Land -- African and African American Struggles in Comparative Perspective -- The Journey to the Promised Land: Summary, Conclusions, and Implications.