Denton L. Watson is Associate Professor of American Studies, SUNY College at Old Westbury. He served as the Director of Public Relations, NAACP, from 1982-1995.

• Chapter 1 Foreword by Clarence Mitchell, Jr. Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Journey Toward the Promised Land: Chapter 5 Trauma of a Lynching Chapter 6 Covering the Scottsboro Trials Chapter 7 A Star is a Small Reward Chapter 8 Neither North nor South Chapter 9 A Man is Molded Chapter 10 Launching a Career Chapter 11 The FEPC Grail Chapter 12 NAACP Labor Secretary Chapter 13 Taking Command Chapter 14 All-Out Attack on Segregation Chapter 15 Confronting the Agony Chapter 16 Shifting Strategy Chapter 17 At the Crossroads Chapter 18 Breakthrough Chapter 19 The Undaunted Optimist Chapter 20 Fulfilling a Dream: Chapter 21 Challenge of the New Frontier Chapter 22 Honing Political Support Chapter 23 Guiding the Forces Through the Turbulence Chapter 24 The 1964 Act: A Dream Realized Chapter 25 101st Senator Chapter 26 "Our Quarterback" Chapter 27 Confronting the Politics of Reaction Chapter 28 Epilogue Chapter 29 Appendix I: Civil Rights Bills: Parliamentary Procedures Chapter 30 Appendix II: Differences Between Voting Proposals and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Chapter 31 Appendix III: What's in the Civil Rights Act? Chapter 32 Notes Chapter 33 Bibliography Chapter 34 Principal Cases Cited Chapter 35 Index

In Lion in the Lobby, Denton L. Watson has provided a well-researched, highly detailed account of Mitchell's fight to advance and protect civil rights for African Americans...it [is] a fundamental starting point for any student pursuing the study of his work, and it makes an important contribution to the overall history of the civil rights movement. -- Creston Long, Salisbury University Journal of Southern History