Foreword / by Reverend Al Sharpton

Introduction

1. The hidden crisis

2. A civil rights issue: a moral imperative

3. Reparations and student debt

4. Factors driving the student debt crisis

5. Unraveling the Higher Education Act of 1965

6. The architect of the Pell Grant

7. Adam Clayton Powell and the Black Church

8. Pillars of support: TMCF, UNCF, and NAFEO

9. The College For All Act

10. Solutions for the future

Afterword: Keeping hope alive: the long arc of the student debt movement in an era of political resistance.