The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP
Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Chapter 1: Black Diamond -- Chapter 2: The Flower -- Chapter 3: A New Eden -- Chapter 4: Blood Under a Black Skin -- Chapter 5 : The Wanamassa -- Chapter 6: Burn Scars -- Chapter 7: 19½ Atkins Avenue -- Chapter 8: Came the Men -- Chapter 9: The Cry of Humanity -- Chapter 10: Gather My Race in My Arms -- Chapter 11: A Negro's Crime -- Chapter 12: The Secret Plan -- Chapter 13: A Guilty Mind -- Chapter 14: Grace Foster -- Chapter 15: My Besetting Sin -- Chapter 16: Turn Our Faces to the West -- Chapter 17: A Balance of Goodness and Evil -- Chapter 18: The Greenhouse -- Chapter 19: What Kind of Fellow He Was -- Chapter 20: Afraid of What They Might Find -- Chapter 21: The Agonies of the Damned -- Chapter 22: Nobody Seen Me Do It -- Chapter 23: The Watchtower -- Chapter 24: Two Coffins -- Chapter 25: The Hellhound -- Chapter 26: The Hands of Parties Unknown -- Chapter 27: Frog James -- Chapter 28: The Rope -- Chapter 29: Immoral Thoughts and Expressions -- Chapter 30: Angels Could Do No More -- Chapter 31: Rope and Coal Oil -- Chapter 32: The Premonition -- Chapter 33: Once to Every Man and Nation -- Chapter 34: Still He Lay in Jail -- Chapter 35: What Was Her Name? -- Chapter 36: On the Square -- Chapter 37: "It Won't Bring Her Back" -- Chapter 38: The Fortress -- Chapter 39: The Lord Has Willed It So -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Copyright.