Chain of change: struggles for black community development

Part I: The service stage: blaming the victim: Growing up in the South End ; Creating the ghetto

Part II: The organizing stage: black power: The schools ; Economic development ; Housing ; Politics: why vote? ; Community controlled education ; United community construction worker ; The assassination of Martin Luther King ; Tent city ; Student power ; The new urban league

Part III: The institution building stage: black skill development: Court ordered desegregation ; Racism in the unions ; Boston jobs for Boston people ; Freedom industries ; Gentrification: creating the Bantustan ; Power to the people: "whose city is this?"

Part IV: Community development: A vision for our city ; A strategy for the 1980's

Epilogue: Interviews with black community activists.