Die interdisziplinär angelegten Beiträge haben ihren Ursprung in einer Serie von Workshops, gehalten während eines Treffens des "Collegium for African American Research" im März 1999 in Münster. Thematisch erstrecken sie sich über ein weites Feld der afro-amerikanischen Forschung, angefangen bei historischen Studien bis hin zu Analysen von Literatur und Film. Inhalt: I. Forerunners: Ideology and Organization in the Early Years of the Civil Rights Crusade: Violet Showers Johnson: Relentless Ex-Colonials and Militant Immigrants: Protest Strategies of Boston's West Indian Immigrants, 1910-1950 (9-20); Patrick B. Miller: Sport as "Interracial Education": Popular Culture and Civil Rights Strategies During the 1930s and Beyond (21-37); Uwe Wenzel: Blacks and Interracial Cooperation: African American Interest Groups and the Fight for Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1950s (39-59); Stephen Tuck: Black Protest During the 1940s: The NAACP in Georgia (61-79). II. Turbulent Times: Gender, Documentation, and Poetic Revision in the Movement Era and Beyond: Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson: "Strong People Don't Need Strong Leaders!" - Ella Jo Baker and the Role of Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement (87-104); Iris Schmeisser: Camera at the Grassroots: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Politics of Visual Representation (105-125); Therese Frey Steffen: Civil Rights Revisited: Rita Dove's On the Bus with Rosa Parks (127-137). III. Legacies: Representation and Resistance at the Turn of the 21st Century: Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche: Rolling into History: Time and Community in Spike Lee's Get on the Bus (147-164); Bianka Zarzycka: "Roaring Loud, Standing Proud": Malcolm X in the Pop Culture of the 1990s (165-174); Gabriele Gottlieb: Race, Resistance, and State Repression: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal (175-193).