Foreword / Clayborne Carson

Introduction: More than Mr. March on Washington / Michael G. Long

Part I: Protests, politics, and partners. Rustin's legacy of civil resistance in the US / Erica Chenoweth ; Moving from the streets to the corridors of power : Rustin's evolving perspective / Randall Kennedy ; The legacy of Grandmother Julia Rustin / Walter Naegle ; Rustin and A Philip Randolph : "We are the advance guard of a moral revolution" / David Lucander ; Rustin and Ella Baker : revolutionary trailblazers / Danielle L. McGuire

Rustin and King : stony the road they trod / Jonathan Eig

Inspiring Stokely Carmichael, sparring with Malcolm X / Peniel E. Joseph

Part II: Resistance, reform, and reconciliation. Rustin's resistance to war and militarism / Sharon Erickson Nepstad ; Enforcing the Constitution : Rustin and the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation / Gene R. Nichol ; Rustin and criminal justice reform / Justin Bronson Barringer ; Troubles I've seen : Rustin and the price of being gay / John D'Emilio ; Rustin's internationalism : how a great American activist learned from movements abroad / Sarah Azaransky ; A pragmatic pirouette in the age of Malcolm X and the riot / terrance wiley ; Rustin and the tactics of democratic socialism / David Stein

Part III: What Rustin means to me. The art of the actual / Rashad Robinson ; Sustaining community despite disagreements / Dorian Williams ; We must work to bring about a jubilee / Ariel Gold ; Educated in his name / Davis Patel ; Bayard sang the body eclectic / Robt Martin Seda-Schreiber

Afterword / Jared Loggins.