"Featuring 1776 Unites essays by Glenn Loury, Shelby Steele, Janice Rogers Brown, Jason D. Hill, Ian Rowe, Charles Love, Joshua Mitchell, John Sibley Butler, Rachel Ferguson"--Page 1 of dust jacket

Part I: The History -- Rebuilding What Was Lost / Rachel Ferguson -- Alabama's Voting Rights Struggle, The First Reconstruction: Dreams Deferred / Janice Rogers Brown -- No Weapon Formed Against You: Resilience and the Black Church / Bishop Dean Nelson -- Homophily and Resilience: How Black Excellence in the Segregated South Inspired a Generation of Jewish Europeans / John Sibley Butler -- Building Blocks of Resiliency / Will Crossley -- Three Black Barbers Who Did Much More than Cut Hair / Cynthia Millen -- Frederick McKinley Jones / Robert L. Woodson -- Resilience of TV Respectability / Yaya Jata Fanusie -- Part II: The Evidence. From Crack House to Life House--The North Hill Community Center / Gary and Patricia Wyatt -- Will to Live with Purpose / Sylvia Bennett-Stone -- Reframing Broken Lives / Ron Anderson -- Nature vs. Nurture: Everything Is Possible / Sheena Michele Mason -- My Journey From the Depths of Homelessness to the Heights of Flight / Kamia Bradley -- Why Quitting Is Not an Option / Jon Ponder -- Stay the Course / Brian Wade -- Tori Hope Petersen; From Foster Child to Mrs. Universe / Charles Love -- Enlarging My Humanity: How Teaching Ku Klux Klan College Students Gave Me Resilience and a Path Back to God / Jason D. Hill -- Law, Liberty, Love, and Land / Michael D. C. Bowen -- A Personalist Perspective on Resiliency / Phillip D. Fletcher -- Part III: The Challenges. Race, Responsibility, and the Rule of Law / Glenn Loury -- Build Resilience and Agency, Not Lower Expectations as the Pathway to Triumph / Ian V. Rowe -- Of Fireflies and Second Tries, Self-Reliance or Social Justice: The Second Reconstruction / Janice Rogers Brown -- Bring Back the Rosenwald Schools / Harold A. Black -- Can I Live? / RW Jones -- A Politics of Idealism / Shelby Steele -- Hope Is Everything / Ismael Hernandez -- Recovering Hope / Joshua Mitchell