Becoming trustworthy White allies

Foreword / Jennifer Harvey

Introduction

I. Inner work

Becoming trustworthy White allies

Memories of the 1963 March on Washington

Qualities and commitments of White allies

A misguided struggle

Why an anti-racism seminar for White people

This is what accountable relationships look like / Dionardo Pizaña and Melanie S. Morrison

Dear White people

II. Ancestral investigations

Cultural envy

Genealogy as spiritual practice : reflections on my White ancestral work

Why we must remember : a King descendant's reckoning with her enslaving ancestors

A just reckoning : forging deeper, truer King House narratives

Letter to my great-great-great-grandmother, Elizabeth King Shortridge

III. Legacies of lynching

Soul splitting

Researching injustice : telling the story of legal lynching in Jim Crow Birmingham

Trayvon Martin, the legacy of lynching, and the role of White women

At the hands of persons unknown : the verdict in the Michael Brelo case

"The fierce urgency of now"

IV. Staying power

What will it take for White people to stay the course?

In the time that I have left.