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African American History

Editor: Carl L. Bankston III, Tulane University
ISBN: 978-1-58765-239-4
List Price: $217

August 2005 · 3 volumes · 1,179 pages · 6"x9"

African American History
Subject Index

Abbott, Benjamin, 363
Abbott, Robert S., 288, 309, 400, 401
Abdullah Al-Amin, Jamil (H. Rap Brown), 1100
Abel, I. W., 746
Abelman v. Booth, 854
Abernathy, Ralph, 616, 800, 881, 1096; and Poor People’s March on Washington, 726
Abolition, 1-4, 59, 832, 853, 923; American Anti-Slavery Society, 42-46; and Brown, John, 1100; and Emancipation Proclamation, 323-326; and National Council of Colored People, 654-657; News- papers, 2, 5, 10, 532-537, 689-693; and proslavery argument, 731-735; and Underground Railroad, 947-952; and women, 5-13
Abrahams, Peter, 430
Abrams v. Johnson, 810
Accommodationism, 316, 501, 919; and Atlanta Compromise, 67-70
Adarand Constructors v. Peña, 13-14, 22
Affirmative action, 13, 15-24, 210, 334, 455; and National Urban League, 661; and quotas, 71-78, 211, 339, 961; and Thomas, Clarence, 929
Africa, John (Vincent Leapheart), 621
African American music, 901
African Communities League, 971
African Intelligencer, The, 64
African Liberation Day, 25
African Methodist Episcopal Church, 26-30, 98, 366; book publishing, 570; and Payne, Daniel Alexander, 1117; and Turner, Henry McNeal, 1123
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Churches, 30-31; book publishing, 570
“Afro-American,” 1106
Afrocentrism, 31-32, 131, 318
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, 36
Agriculture, 32-39, 304, 306; and demographics, 289; research, 779; sharecropping, 308, 806-808
AIDS conspiracy theory, 940
Alabama; affirmative action, 21; Birmingham March, 91-94; bombings, 169-171, 174, 526; Children’s Crusade, 214; Clotilde capture, 234-239; demographics, 399; elections, 984; and Freedom Rides, 372; gerrymandering, 348, 395, 397-398; Jim Crow laws, 477; Lowndes County Freedom Organization, 124; Mobile riot, 741-745; Montgomery bus boycott, 209, 614-619; and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 650-651; poll taxes, 435, 724; Scottsboro cases, 687-688, 727-728, 786-790; Selma-Montgomery march, 209, 797-804; Tuskegee experiment, 939-940; Tuskegee Institute, 67, 108
Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company, 742
Albany, Georgia, 910
Albemarle Paper Company v. Moody, 39-40
Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, 40-42, 143
Ali, Muhammad, 895, 901, 1096; and military conscription, 982
All African People’s Revolutionary Party, 25
All-Negro Hour, The (radio program), 572
All-volunteer force, 580
Allen, Richard, 26-27, 44, 98, 363, 655, 1096
Allen v. Board of Elections, 987
American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 535
American Anti-Slavery Society, 2, 42-46, 534, 922, 1105-1106
American Civil Liberties Union, 789
American Colonization Society, 1, 28, 43, 46, 64, 533
American Indian Movement, 665
American Indians, 197
American Moral Reform Society, 1106
American Negro Academy, 1103
Amistad, 47-51
Amos, James Ralston, 64
Amos and Andy (radio program), 571
Anderson, Jack, 254
Anderson, Joe, 777
Anderson, Marian, 51-58, 1096
Angelou, Maya, 595, 1097
Anthony, Susan B., 927
Anti-Defamation League, 595
Anti-Semitism, 525, 594
Antislavery laws of 1777 and 1807, 58-62
Antislavery societies, 7-8, 533, 667, 703, 832, 922
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand, 422
Arkansas; bombings, 169; elections, 718; Jim Crow laws, 477; poll taxes, 435
Armstrong, Louis, 429
Arson and black churches, 174
Asante, Molefi Kete, 31-32, 318, 1097
Ashe, Arthur, 895
Ashmun, Jehudi, 64
Ashmun Institute, 62-66
Association for the Protection of Colored Women, 659
Astronauts, 781
At-large elections, 987
Atchison, David R., 492
Atlanta Compromise, 67-70, 316, 1124
Atlanta University, 108, 570, 682, 919
Attucks, Crispus, 277, 663
Autobiographies, 538; Anderson, Marian, 57; Douglass, Frederick, 538, 689; Powell, Colin, 1005; Washington, Booker T., 538, 970
Autobiography of Malcolm X, The, 539
Aviators, 937-939
Back Panthers (military), 1022
Back-to-Africa movements, 28, 42, 64, 81, 380, 533, 701; American Colonization Society, 46
Bailey, F. Lee, 815
Baird, Absalom, 740
Baker, Ella Jo, 206, 411, 881, 908
Baker, Josephine, 1097
Baker v. Carr, 397
Bakke, Alan, 18, 71-78
Bakke case, 18, 71-78, 339, 962
Baldwin, James, 431, 542, 1098
Baliles, Gerald L., 1011
Banking practices, 197
Banneker, Benjamin, 44, 777
Baptist Church, 78-82, 98; and King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1112
Baraka, Amiri, 1098
Bargonetti, Jill, 781
Barnett, Ferdinand L., 1124
Barnett, Ross, 975, 978
Baseball, 889, 1119; integration of, 82-90
Basketball, 893
Bates, Daisy, 215
Batson v. Kentucky, 90-91, 314
Batt, John, 378
“Battle Hymn of the Republic, The” (Howe), 862
Beaumont, Texas, riots, 743
Beecher, Catharine, 864
Bell, Alexander Graham, 779
Beloved (Morrison), 543
Berea College v. Kentucky, 771
Berry, Mary Francis, 594
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 365
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 94, 658, 1098
Bethune-Cookman College, 1098
Beulah (radio program), 571
Biden, Joseph, 929
Bidwell, Barnabas, 61
Bigotry, 788
Bill of Rights, U.S., 179
Birmingham, Alabama; church bombings, 171; demographics, 291
Birmingham March, 91-94
Birth of a Nation (film), 352-354, 525, 844, 900
“Black Belt,” 765
Black “brute” and “buck” stereotypes, 899
Black Cabinet, 94-95, 1120
Black Christian Nationalist Movement, 95-97
Black church, 97-103, 119; and Turner, Henry McNeal, 1123
Black codes, 103-107, 179, 200, 368, 715, 738, 790, 834; and Jim Crow laws, 476
Black colleges and universities, 132-133, 369, 954; sports, 893
Black Enterprise, 571, 1005, 1107
Black flight, 112-114
Black History Month, 1125
Black Is Beautiful movement, 114-115
Black Jews, 115-117
Black Journal (television), 574
“Black Manifesto,” 117-118
Black middle class/black underclass relations, 596
Black Monday, 1007
Black nationalism, 96, 101, 118-123, 129, 242, 631; and Black Panther Party, 123-129; and Garvey, Marcus, 1106; and Malcolm X, 1115; and Pan-Africanism, 702; and Universal Negro Improvement Association, 969-974
Black Panther Party, 121, 123-129, 132, 424; and Carmichael, Stokely, 1101; and Cleaver, Eldridge, 1102; and Davis, Angela, 1103; and Newton, Huey P., 1116; and Seale, Bobby, 1121
Black Power movement, 97, 101, 114, 129-132, 210, 212, 473, 748, 909; and
Baraka, Amiri, 1098; and Carmichael, Stokely, 1101; and Cleaver, Eldridge, 1102; and National Urban League, 661
Black Star Line, 972
Black Stars, 571
Black studies, 133
Black United Students, 132-133
Black Woman’s Voice, 659
Black, Hugo L., 700, 921, 975; and Ku Klux Klan, 526
Blackwell, David, 780
Blair, Henry, 778
Blaxploitation films, 355
Bleeding Kansas, 134-137, 437
Blueford, Guion, 781
Blues, 431, 627
Body of Liberties, 866
Boll weevil, 35
Bolling v. Sharpe, 137-138
Bond, Julian, 1099; and King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1099
Book publishing, 570
Booth, John Wilkes, 1114
Booth, Sherman M., 854
Border Ruffians, 135, 436
Boston; Freemasons, 377-381; Liberator, The, 532-537
Boston massacre, 277
Bowlegs, Billy, 665
Bowlegs, Jim, 665
Boxill, Bernard R., 457, 459
Boynton v. Virginia, 253
Bradley, Ed, 574
Bradley, Joseph P., 203, 820
Bradley, Stephen R., 61
Bradley, Thomas, 517, 1099
Bradstreet, Simon, 868
Bradwell v. Illinois, 761
Brady, Tom, 1007
Braun, Carol Moseley, 1099
Brawley, Tawana, 1121
Breckenridge, Calvin, 414
Breedlove v. Suttles, 435, 987
Brennan, William J., 506
Brewer, David J.; Louisville, New Orleans, and Texas Railway Company v. Mississippi, 552
Breyer, Stephen G.; and affirmative action, 23
Brooke, Edward W., 343, 746, 1014, 1100
Brooklyn Dodgers, 82-90
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 138-140, 279, 309, 341, 450, 1118
Browder v. Gayle, 617
Brown, H. Rap, 909, 1100
Brown, Henry “Box,” 949
Brown, James, 1121
Brown, Jim, 901
Brown, John, 135, 436-441, 924, 1100; and Tubman, Harriet, 1122
Brown, Oliver, 215
Brown, Ron, 754
Brown, Tony, 574
Brown, William Wells, 951
Brown II, 142, 955
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 140-144, 180, 192, 208, 258, 318, 404, 456, 506, 544, 566, 614, 641, 645-646, 712, 792, 914, 955, 975; and Marshall, Thurgood, 1115; and Southern Manifesto, 773, 887-889; and Warren, Earl, 1124; and White Citizens’ Councils, 1007
Brown v. Mississippi, 144-145
Brownsville incident, 145-146
Bruce, Blanche K., 241, 717, 1100
Bruce, Josephine B., 241
Bryan, Andrew, 79
Buchanan, Bessie, 162
Buchanan, James, 134, 136
Buchanan v. Warley, 137, 147, 640, 812
Buffalo soldiers, 147-150
Bull, William, 904
Bunche, Ralph, 1100
Burger, Warren, 414, 416, 915
Burr, Aaron, 60
Burton, LeVar, 768
Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority, 150-151, 620
Bush, George, 1119; and affirmative action, 22; and civil rights, 199; and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 339; and Haitians, 423; and Supreme Court, 928; and Thomas, Clarence, 1121
Bush, George W., 722, 1119
Bush v. Vera, 810
Busing
. See School busing
Busing and integration, 456
Butler, Pierce, 728
Byrd, Harry, 773
Calhoun, John C., 246
Callahan, William W., 788
Capital punishment, 557-558
Capitalism, 226
Caplan, Lincoln, 22
Cardozo, Benjamin N.; Nixon v. Condon, 685
Carmichael, Stokely, 124, 127, 129-130, 212, 375, 473, 501, 909, 1004, 1101; and Vietnam War, 981
Carter, Jimmy, 257, 965, 1109, 1126
Carter, John Pym, 64
Carver, George Washington, 779
Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 10
Catholic Conference of Bishops, 218
Cato, Gavin, 269
Cavanagh, Jerome, 746
Censuses, 285, 287, 305
Champion, James, 26
Chaney, James Earl, 219-225, 254, 263, 375, 472, 908
Charleston, Oscar, 891
Charleston race riots, 151-152
Chase, Salmon, 494
Chavis, Benjamin, 593-597, 639, 1101
Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 861
Chicago; demographics, 399; elected officials, 718; and Great Migration, 288, 309; Ku Klux Klan, 526; radio programs, 572; riots, 152-154; sit-ins, 154-160, 406-413, 818-819; television stations, 574
Chicago Committee of Racial Equality, 1120
Chicago Defender, 288, 309, 401
Children in the Civil Rights movement, 214-215
Children’s Crusade, 214
Chionesu, Philé, 597-600
Chisholm, Shirley, 161-168, 465, 721, 1004, 1101
Christianity, 78, 97, 363, 533, 821
Christopher Commission, 517
Church bombings, 169-174
Church burnings, 174-177
Citizens’ Councils of America, 1008
Citizenship, 347, 357; and slavery, 783-786, 1120
Civil liberties, 228
Civil Rights Act of 1866, 177-182, 332, 703, 756, 925
Civil Rights Act of 1871, 180
Civil Rights Act of 1875, 332, 759
Civil Rights Act of 1957, 182-183, 185, 720, 954-958
Civil Rights Act of 1960, 183-188, 955
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 93, 188-195, 210, 332, 343, 375, 451, 455, 496, 720, 775, 798, 956; and Johnson, Lyndon B., 1111
Civil Rights Act of 1968, 195-198; and restrictive covenants, 767
Civil Rights Act of 1991, 198-199, 416; and employment discrimination, 568
Civil Rights Acts of 1866-1875, 199-202, 343, 370, 834
Civil rights and liberties, 347
Civil Rights cases, 201, 202-204, 478-479, 710, 759
Civil Rights Commission, 183
Civil Rights movement, 100, 131, 182, 204-214, 318, 472, 559, 614, 642, 674, 985, 997, 1001; Birmingham March, 91-94; and Congress of Racial Equality, 253; Freedom Rides, 372-374; Freedom Summer, 374-377; and King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1112; and Little Rock school desegregation crisis, 544-548, 774; and the media, 374, 488, 573, 727, 799, 910; and National Urban League, 661; and politics, 721; and Poor People’s March on Washington, 725-727; and school desegregation, 770-776; Selma-Montgomery march, 797-804; sit-ins, 406-413, 818-819; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 908-912; and television, 573; and Vietnam War, 981-982; and voting rights, 720; and World War II, 584
Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1988, 215-219
Civil rights worker murders, 219-225, 254, 263, 375, 472, 908
Civil Service Commission, 334
Civil War, 226-233, 924; draft riots, 298-302; and Emancipation Proclamation, 323-326; Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Colored Regiment, 230; and Harpers Ferry raid, 436-441; and Native Americans, 665; sectional issues, 851; and slavery, 323-326, 851
Civil War Amendments, 202, 819-820, 925
Clark, Marcia, 814
Clark, Mark, 424-426
Classic, United States v
. See United States v. Classic
Clay, Henry, 46, 244, 246
Cleage, Albert, 96
Cleaver, Eldridge, 127-128, 1102; and Vietnam War, 981
Cleveland, Grover, 69
Clinton, Bill, 23, 1097; and church burnings, 176; and Haitians, 423; and Jackson, Jesse, 754; and Jordan, Vernon, 1111
Clinton massacre, 233-234
Clotilde (ship), 234-239
Cochran, Johnnie, 815
Coffin, Levi, 950
COFO
. See Council of Federated Organizations
Colegrove v. Green, 397
Coleman, Marshall, 1014
Colfax massacre, 239-240
College entrance examinations, 319
Colleges and universities, 107-112; book publishing, 570; United Negro College Fund, 953-954
Collins v. Hardyman, 414
Colmer, William, 186
Color Purple, The (Walker), 543, 1123
Colored Farmers’ Alliance, 33
Colored Women’s League, 240-241
Combahee River Collective, 241-243
Combahee River Collective Statement, 242
Commandment Keepers Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation, 115
Commission for Racial Justice, 1101
Commission on Civil Rights, 185
. See United States Commission on Civil Rights
Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service, 587
Committee for Improving the Industrial Conditions of Negroes in New York, 659
Commonwealth, 862
Communist Party, 786; and Davis, Angela, 1103; and Du Bois, W. E. B., 1104; and farmworkers, 35; and Rustin, Bayard, 1120; and Wright, Richard, 1126
Compromise of 1850, 243-247, 385, 387, 490, 851, 923, 1106
Compromise of 1877, 248-249
Condon, James, 876
Cone, James, 1102
Coney, Asia, 597-600
Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862, 249-250
Congress, U.S.; antilynching bill, 556; Black Caucus, 256-258; Black representatives, 161-168, 718; and Chisholm, Shirley, 161-168; and gerrymandering, 393-398, 808-811; Missouri Compromise, 606-611; and Reconstruction, 716; and redistricting, 393-397, 808-811; Southern Manifesto, 887-889. See also individual laws
Congress of Racial Equality, 210, 250-255, 375, 675, 910; and Council of Federated Organizations, 260; and Farmer, James, 1105; and Freedom Rides, 372-374; and Greensboro sit-ins, 408; and Innis, Roy, 1109; and Journey of Reconciliation, 481-490; and McKissick, Floyd, 1115; and Rustin, Bayard, 1120
Congressional Black Caucus, 256-258, 422, 721; and Nixon, Richard M., 721
Connecticut; and fugitive slave laws, 385
Connell, Pat, 574
Conner, Eugene “Bull,” 92
Conscientious objectors, 251
Conscription
. See Military conscription
Conscription Act of 1863, 298-302
Conspiracy Act of 1708 (New York), 671
Constitution, U.S.; color-blindness of, 791; enumeration clause, 607, 697, 714, 930-931; and fugitive slaves, 387; and gerrymandering, 394; King, Martin Luther, Jr., on, 453; and slavery, 382, 608, 852; and understanding tests, 952-953. See also individual amendments
Constitutional Convention, 606, 697; and slavery, 713-714, 852, 930-931
Conyers, John, 1117
Cook, Coralie Franklin, 241
Cook, Helen A., 240
Cook, John T., 240
Coolidge, Calvin, 1106
Cooper, Anna J., 241
Cooper, Jack, 572
Cooper v. Aaron, 258-259
CORE
. See Congress of Racial Equality
Corman, James C., 746
Cornish, Samuel, 571
Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 662
Corrigan v. Buckley, 641, 812
Cosby, Bill, 1102
Cotton farming, 32-34, 286, 304
Council of Federated Organizations, 214, 220, 260-267, 374-377, 604
Court, Gus, 261
Cowboys, 267-268
Craft, William and Ellen, 949
Crandall, Prudence, 5
Cresson, Sarah Emlen, 63
Crime and race/ethnicity, 786
Crime Control Act of 1934, 526
Crisis, The, 501, 571, 637, 660, 1125
Crop-lien farming, 33
Crown Heights conflicts, 268-270, 474
Cruikshank, United States v
. See United States v. Cruikshank
Cruikshank, William, 959-960
Crummell, Alexander, 1102
Crusade for Citizenship, 883
Cuba, 490; and slave trade, 50; slavery in, 47
Cuban Americans, 273, 577
Cubans, 270-276
Cuffe, Paul, 118, 663
Cuffee, 671
Cullen, Countée, 427, 432
Culture of poverty, 624
Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education, 140, 276-277
Curry, John Stuart, 438
Danforth, John C., 218
Darden, Christopher, 814
Davis, Angela, 1103
Davis, Benjamin O., Jr., 938, 1022, 1103
Davis, Benjamin O., Sr., 581, 1020, 1103
Davis, Billy, 1107
Davis, Jefferson, 228, 246, 301
Davis, Ossie, 573
Davis v. Bandemer, 395
Dawson, William L., 718
Day, William R.; Buchanan v. Warley, 147
Daytona Educational and Industrial School for Negro Girls, 1098
Declaration of Independence; and Million Woman March, 598
Declaration of Sentiments, 42, 535
Dees, Morris, 528
Defense industry desegregation, 277-283
DeFunis v. Odegaard, 17
Delany, Martin Robison, 1103
Dellums, Ronald, 167
Democratic Party, 281, 490, 604, 718, 722; and Jackson, Jesse, 461-466, 754; and Reconstruction, 717
Demographics, 283-294; Black flight, 112-114; and economic trends, 304-314; farmworkers, 37
Dennis, David, 261
Denny, Reginald, 550
DePriest, Oscar, 718
Desegregation; defense industries, 277-283; public schools, 40, 137, 192, 207, 215, 258, 456, 506, 614, 912-913
Detroit riots, 743, 745-746, 751, 1001, 1021
Dew, Thomas R., 732
Dickey, John Miller, 63
Dickinson, Jonathan, 706
Diop, Cheikh Anta, 32
Dirksen, Everett M., 186, 190, 196, 344
Discrimination, 674; employment, 327; housing, 458; by private parties, 203; racial and ethnic, 600
Disfranchisement laws, 184; in Mississippi, 294-298
“Dixiecrats,” 282, 719-720
Dixon, Thomas, 900
Do the Right Thing, 356
Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, 530-532
Douglas, Stephen A., 134, 247, 491, 1113
Douglas, William O.; Lassiter v. Northampton County Board of Elections, 530
Douglass, Frederick, 3, 44, 367, 538, 656, 663, 689, 832, 924, 951, 1103, 1124; and Garrison, William Lloyd, 690; and North Star, The, 689-693; and Thirteenth Amendment, 925; and Truth, Sojourner, 11
Draft, military
Draft riots, 298-302, 460
Dred Scott case
. See Scott v. Sandford
D’Souza, Dinesh, 1002
Dual federalism, 758
Du Bois, W. E. B., 70, 108, 119, 317, 400, 570, 637, 1104; and Niagara Movement, 501, 682; and Pan-Africanism, 701-702; and “Talented Tenth,” 919-921; and United Nations, 587; and Washington, Booker T., 1124; writings of, 539
Dukakis, Michael, 1110
Duke, David, 527
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 540
Dyer, L. C., 303
Dyer antilynching bill, 302-304
East St. Louis riot of 1917, 751
Eastern European Jews, 470
Eastland, James O., 186, 942, 993
Ebony, 571, 1111
Eclipse, 237
Economic trends, 304-314
Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company, 314-315
Edmundson, William, 705
Education, 68, 292, 315-321, 328, 369, 457, 655; colleges and universities, 107-112, 132-133, 369, 893; integration of University of Mississippi, 974-979; and school desegregation, 770-776; and separate but equal doctrine, 917-918; United Negro College Fund, 953-954; and Washington, Booker T., 1124
Edwards v. South Carolina, 322
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 588, 912, 1104; and Anderson, Marian, 55, 57; and civil rights, 185, 187, 882; and Civil Rights Act of 1960, 184; and Little Rock school desegregation crisis, 259, 544-548, 774; and military segregation, 589; and Summit Meeting of National Negro Leaders, 912-913; and Warren, Earl, 1123; and World War II, 1023
Eisenstein, Zillah, 242
Elder, Lee, 896
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 775
Ellington, Duke, 428, 572
Ellison, Ralph, 431, 542
Emancipation, compensated, 42, 361
Emancipation Day, 926
Emancipation Proclamation, 2, 228, 250, 323-326, 452, 692, 738, 1114
Emperor Jones, The (O’Neill), 139, 1119
Employment, 327-331, 368, 401; broadcasting, 574
. See also Labor
Employment Act of 1946, 333
Employment discrimination, 192, 198-199, 415-417, 568, 702-703, 962-968, 996-997; and National Urban League, 661
Encyclopedia Africana, 1104
Enforcement Act of 1870, 347, 716, 961
English Bill, 136
Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, 331-338, 962
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 193, 210, 332, 338-339, 416, 956; and Thomas, Clarence, 929
Equal Pay Act of 1963, 332
Equal Rights Party, 692
Ervin, Sam, 197, 962
Estevanico Dorantes, 662
Ethnic identity, 118
Ethnocentrism, 844
Evangelicalism, 43
Evans v. Abney, 340
Evers, Medgar, 170, 450, 1105
Executive Order 8802, 277-283, 341, 585, 719, 1020, 1120; and Randolph, A. Philip, 1118
Executive Order 9008, 729-731
Executive Order 9980, 730
Executive Order 9981, 282, 583-591, 719, 730, 1122; and Randolph, A. Philip, 1118
Executive Order 10925, 332
Executive Order 11063, 343
Executive Order 11246, 962
Fair Employment Practices Committee, 280, 340-342, 1020
Fair Housing Act of 1968, 342-346, 480
Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, 345
Family and socialization, 320, 623
Family demographics, 291-293
Fard, W. D., 631-632, 1116
Farmer, James, 163, 372, 481, 1105, 1120
Farrakhan, Louis, 121, 257, 634, 1105; and Jackson, Jesse, 464, 1105; and Jews, 474; and Malcolm X, 1105; and the media, 594; and Million Man March, 593-597
Faubus, Orval, 258-259, 544-548, 774
FBI
. See Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 127, 131; and church burnings, 175; and Civil Rights movement, 452; and civil rights murders, 222; and Clark-Hampton deaths, 424; and Freedom Summer, 376; and King, Martin Luther, Jr., assassination, 512; and Ku Klux Klan, 526
Federal Communications Commission, 22, 574
Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1910, 680
Federal Council on Negro Affairs, 94-95
Fellowship of Reconciliation, 481-490
Fernando, 870
Ferraro, Geraldine, 465
Field, Stephen J., 820
Fifteenth Amendment, 184, 201, 205, 294, 332, 347-352, 398, 419, 756, 875, 988; and voting rights, 961
Fifth Amendment, 137-138, 180, 784
Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Colored Regiment, 230
Fillmore, Millard, 246
Films, 352-357, 376, 844; and stereotypes, 901
First Amendment, 180, 1019
Fisk Jubilee Chorus, 626
Fisk University, 539, 570, 1021
Fitzgerald, Ella, 428
Fitzhugh, George, 734, 830
Florida; bombings, 169; Cuban community, 270-276, 422; Haitian community, 422; Hispanic communities, 110; Jamaican community, 467; Jim Crow laws, 477; poll taxes, 724; presidential election of 2000, 722; riots, 576-578; Seminole Wars, 662; slave trade, 235; slavery, 285
Football, 462, 814, 892, 901, 997
Foraker, Joseph B., 146
Forman, James, 911
Forten, James, 26, 534, 1105
Forten, James, Jr., 778
Fortune, T. Thomas, 306, 1106; and Washington, Booker T., 1106
Foster, Bill, 236
Foster, Stephen, 626
Fourteenth Amendment, 137-138, 142, 179, 201, 332, 343, 357-362, 710, 756, 764, 834, 875, 925, 960; and Civil Rights cases, 202-204; and gerrymandering, 395; and Stevens, Thaddeus, 1121; and White primaries, 1009-1010
Fourth Amendment, 180
Fox, George, 704
Frank v. Mangum, 619
Frankfurter, Felix, 397, 921
Franklin, Benjamin, 378, 704, 922
Franklin, Raymond S., 845
Frazier, Demita, 242
Frederickson, George, 844
Free African Society, 27, 44, 98, 362-366
Free blacks, 1, 366-367; demographics of, 286-287
Free Produce Society, 29, 365
Free-soil movement, 45, 134, 245
Free-Soil Party, 135, 437, 491
Free State Party, 134, 436
Freedmen’s Bureau, 178, 201, 306, 316, 367-371, 716, 738
Freedom Farms Corporation, 1108
Freedom Rides, 210, 252-253, 372-374, 910; and Farmer, James, 1105
Freedom Summer, 220, 262, 264, 374-377, 910
Freedom's Journal, 571
Freemasons, 377-381
Frémont, John C., 247
Fugitive Slave Law of 1793, 382-386
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, 387-391, 490, 923
Fugitive slave laws, 853, 948
Fugitive slaves; and Underground Railroad, 947-952
Fullilove v. Klutznick, 20, 391-393
Gallup polls, 772
Gandhi, Mohandas K., 154, 251, 407, 481, 508, 1106; and King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1106
Garnet, Henry Highland, 951
Garrettson, Freeborn, 363
Garrison, William Lloyd, 2, 5, 9, 42, 832, 853, 863, 935, 1106; and Douglass, Frederick, 690; and Liberator, The, 532-537; opponents of, 732; and Thirteenth Amendment, 925
Garvey, Marcus, 115, 120, 403, 467, 632, 640, 969-974, 1004, 1106; and Malcolm X, 1115; and Pan-Africanism, 701; and Washington, Booker T., 970
Garvey’s Watchman, 970
Gates, Daryl, 517, 548
Geary, John W., 135
George, David, 79
George, Walter, 888
Georgia; Atlanta Compromise, 67-70; Baptist Church, 79; bombings, 169; capital punishment, 557; demographics, 291, 399; elections, 613, 718, 984; and Freedom Rides, 372; gerrymandering, 396; Jim Crow laws, 477; Ku Klux Klan, 353, 525; lynching, 554; schools, 271, 770; slave trade, 61, 285
Georgia v. McCollum, 91
Geronimo, 148
Gerry, Elbridge, 394
Gerrymandering, 348, 393-398, 944, 956; and schools, 506; Shaw v. Hunt, 808-811
Gibson, Josh, 891
Giddings, Doras, 364
Gillem Board, 586
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader; and affirmative action, 23
Glazer, Nathan, 455, 458
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Baldwin), 543
Goetz, Bernhard, 1121
Gold rush; California, 245
Goldman, Ronald, 814
Goldwater, Barry, 223
Golf, 895
Gomillion v. Lightfoot, 348, 395, 397-398
Gone with the Wind (film), 844, 899
Gong Lum v. Rice, 140
Gonzales, Pancho, 895
Goode, Mal, 574
Goode, Wilson, 622
Goodell, William, 853
Goodman, Andrew, 219-225, 263, 375, 472, 908
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 1119
Gordy, Berry, Jr., 1107
Gordy, Gwen, 1107
Gore, Al, 722
Gourdine, Meredith, 781
Grace, Charles Emmanuel “Sweet Daddy,” 1107
Grandfather clauses, 205, 348, 398-399, 419-420, 640
Granger, Lester B., 660, 912
Grant, Ulysses S., 240, 529, 759; and civil rights, 201
Graves, Earl, 1005, 1107
Gray v. Sanders, 162
Great Depression, 278, 399, 632, 640, 789
Great Migration, 288, 308, 310, 399-404; and sharecropping, 808
Green, Charles, 240
Green v. County School Board of New Kent County, 41, 143, 404-405, 914
Greenberg, Jack, 645, 648
Greensboro, North Carolina, 818
Greensboro sit-ins, 209
Gregg v. Georgia, 557
Griffin v. Breckenridge, 413-415, 480
Griffith, D. W., 900
Griggs v. Duke Power Company, 15, 334, 415-417, 996
Grimké, Angelina, 8, 861
Grimké, Charlotte Forten, 240
Grimké, Sarah, 8, 861
Grove City College v. Bell, 217
Groves v. Slaughter, 417
Grovey, Richard Randolph, 876
Grovey v. Townsend, 206, 418-419, 687, 876, 958, 1010
Guest, United States v
. See United States v. Guest
Guinn v. United States, 205, 348, 398, 419-420, 640
Gulf War, 1118
Gumbel, Bryant, 574
Haiti, 379
Haitians, 421-423; refugees, 273
Hale, John P., 491
Haley, Alex, 539, 767-768, 1107
Hall, Prince, 377-381
Hamer, Fannie Lou, 101, 1108
Hamilton, Alexander, 60, 707
Hammond, James Henry, 733
Hampton, Fred, 424-426
Hampton, Wade, 151, 717
Hampton Institute, 67, 570, 1124
Hannah, Marc, 780
Harding, Warren, 302
Harlan, John M., 271, 480, 764, 791
Harlem, New York, 972; riots, 744, 750
Harlem Commonwealth Council, 1109
Harlem Renaissance, 403, 426-433, 540, 628, 1114; and Hughes, Langston, 1109; and Locke, Alain, 1114
Harlins, Latasha, 434, 522
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 10
Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, 207, 435-436, 725, 945, 987
Harpers Ferry raid, 436-441, 1122
Harris, Bernard, 781
Harris, Fred R., 500, 746
Harris, United States v
. See United States v. Harris
Harrison, Pat, 303
Harrison, Thomas, 704
Hart, Gary, 462
Hastie, William, 94, 1020
Hate crimes, 441, 735-736, 1018; church bombings, 169-174; Clinton massacre, 233-234
Havens v. Coleman, 345
Hawkins, Yusuf, 441-442
Hayden, Lewis, 951
Hayes, George E. C., 645
Hayes, Rutherford B., 248-249, 717, 755, 1108
Head Start, 165
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, 442-449, 497
Henderson, Fletcher, 428
Henderson v. United States, 712
Henry, Aaron, 260
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 437
Hill, Anita, 928-930, 1108, 1121
Hill, Larry, 176
Hilliard, Asa, 32
Hip-hop, 630
Hitler, Adolf, 1116
Hodges v. United States, 480
Holder, Eric, 1004
Holland, Spessard L., 942-943
Hollywood Shuffle, 355
Holmes, Oliver Wendell; Moore v. Dempsey, 619
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 875
Homestead Act of 1862, 794
Hooker, John Lee, 628
Hooks, Benjamin, 574, 639, 1108
Hoover, Herbert, 1098
Hoover, J. Edgar, 127; and civil rights worker murders, 222; and urban rioting, 998
Hopkins, Pauline E., 541
Hopwood v. Texas, 1094
Houser, George M., 481
Housing; restrictive covenants, 766-767
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, 346
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, 346
Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of, 196
Housing discrimination, 195-198, 342-346, 479-480, 763-767; Buchanan v. Warley, 147
Houston, Charles, 812
Howard, Oliver Otis, 1109
Howard Beach, 1121
Howard University, 54, 252, 565, 570, 780, 1013, 1109; and Locke, Alain, 1114
Howe, Julia Ward, 862, 927
Howe, Samuel Gridley, 437
Hughes, Charles Evans; Brown v. Mississippi, 144; Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada, 612; Norris v. Alabama, 688
Hughes, Henry, 734, 844
Hughes, Langston, 65, 403, 427, 431, 541, 1109
Hughes, Richard J., 678
Humphrey, Hubert H., 189, 965
Hunter, Robert, 671-672
Hurston, Zora Neale, 430, 543, 1114, 1123
“I Have a Dream” speech, 449-454, 509, 1113
Illinois, 696
Illiteracy; and slavery, 569, 855
Imes, Elmer Samuel, 780
Immigration Act of 1921, 525
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, 467
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, 467
Income levels, 292
Indentured servants, 327, 382, 384, 854, 858, 865, 873
Indiana; and fugitive slave laws, 385
Indiana Territory, 696
Innis, Roy, 251, 1109
Integration, 454-459
Intelligence testing, 319
International Labor Defense, 786
Interracial and interethnic marriage, 600
Interstate Commerce Commission, 254
Invisible Man (Ellison), 542
Irish Americans, 300, 460-461, 739
Italian Americans, 441
Ito, Judge Lance, 814
J. E. B. v. Alabama, 91
Jackson, Andrew; and Seminole Wars, 665
Jackson, Jesse, 474, 1109; and Chicago riots, 153; and Clinton, Bill, 754; and Democratic Party, 754; and Farrakhan, Louis, 464, 1105; and Korean Americans, 521; presidential candidacy, 461-466; and Rainbow Coalition, 753-754; and Reagan, Ronald, 462-463
Jackson, Jimmie Lee, 799
Jackson, Mahalia, 628
Jacob, John, 661
Jamaican Americans, 466-469
Jamaicans; Universal Negro Improvement Association, 969-974
James v. Bowman, 1026
Jay, John, 60, 707
Jazz, 428, 627
Jefferson, Thomas; and Northwest Ordinance, 694; and slavery, 61
Jeffries, Edward J., 744
Jemison, T. J., 881
Jenkins, Herbert, 746
Jenkins, Howard, 645
Jennings, Thomas L., 778
Jet, 571, 932
Jews, 17, 115-117, 470-475, 766; and Civil Rights movement, 883; Crown Heights conflicts, 268-270; and Farrakhan, Louis, 594; and Jackson, Jesse, 464, 474; and quotas, 966; and reparations, 117
Jim Crow laws, 190, 195, 207, 279, 401, 476-479; education, 141; and military, 587, 1024; and Plessy v. Ferguson, 711
Johnson, Andrew, 103, 178, 218, 361, 1110; and civil rights, 200-201, 756; impeachment of, 180, 926; and Reconstruction, 103, 106, 179-180, 357, 371, 714, 738, 755, 926; and Stevens, Thaddeus, 1121
Johnson, Andrew (student), 484
Johnson, Frank M., 801
Johnson, Jack, 894, 1110
Johnson, James Weldon, 1110
Johnson, John H., 571, 1111
Johnson, Lyndon B., 182, 1111; and affirmative action, 15, 71, 962; and civil rights, 189, 195, 343, 888; and Civil Rights Act of 1964, 191; and civil rights worker murders, 222; and Kerner Commission, 499-506; and King, Martin Luther, Jr., 189; and Ku Klux Klan, 527; and Marshall, Thurgood, 567; and riots, 211, 676, 678, 751; and Selma-Montgomery march, 800-802; and Vietnam War, 981; and voting rights, 799, 985, 990
Johnston, Samuel, 383
Jones, Absalom, 26, 98, 363, 366, 1111
Jones, Elaine, 648
Jones, Jane Elizabeth, 10
Jones, LeRoi (Amiri Baraka), 1098
Jones, Quincy, 629
Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Company, 196, 479-480, 703, 766, 769
Joplin, Scott, 627
Jordan, Vernon E., Jr., 661, 1111
Joseph, Chief, 1109
Journey of Reconciliation, 252, 481-490
Julian, Percy, 780
Juries, 90-91, 314-315, 619-620, 687-688, 728-729, 760, 907, 1017-1018; and fugitive slaves, 382, 388-390; and slaves, 872
Just, Ernest, 780
Just So Publishers, 570
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, 134, 490-496, 851
Karenga, Ron, 114
Katzenbach, Nicholas, 985
Katzenbach v. McClung, 496-498
Keith, George, 705
Kelly, Harry F., 744
Kennedy, Anthony M., 315, 728
Kennedy, John F., 1111; assassination of, 189, 562; and Birmingham March, 92-93; and civil rights, 183, 189, 332, 343, 444, 451, 499, 720, 910; and Malcolm X, 634; and Marshall, Thurgood, 648; and Meredith, James, 976
Kennedy, Robert F., 222, 1107, 1112; and civil rights, 499; and Meredith, James, 975
Kennedy, Ted, 217
Kent State University, 133; shooting, 700
Kentucky; Jim Crow laws, 477
Kenyatta, Jomo, 701
Kerner, Otto, 153, 500, 635, 746, 998
Kerner Commission, 153, 499-506, 635, 679, 746-747, 749, 751, 998
Key, Elizabeth, 870
Keyes v. Denver School District No. 1, 506-507
King, Don, 1121
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 101, 209, 473, 616, 908, 912, 1112; assassination of, 196, 507-515; and Birmingham March, 91-94; and Bond, Julian, 1099; and Gandhi, Mohandas K., 1106; “I Have a Dream” speech, 449-454, 509; and Johnson, Lyndon B., 189; “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” 92, 209, 450, 978; and Malcolm X, 799; and the media, 251; and Poor People’s March on Washington, 726; and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 411; and Vietnam War, 212, 981; and Watts riot, 1001; and Young, Andrew, 1126
King, Rodney, 515-519, 522, 548, 752, 816, 1113
King, Rufus, 608
Klanwatch Project, 527
Knights of the White Camelia, 524
Koon, Stacey, 516, 549
Korean Americans, 434, 518, 520-523
Korean War, 579, 589, 1013
Kozol, Jonathan, 457
Ku Klux Klan, 178, 201, 375, 478, 523-529, 1025-1026; and Reconstruction, 717; and Snapple, 940; and White Citizens’ Councils, 1007
Ku Klux Klan Acts, 524, 529
Kunta Kinte, 767-768, 1107
Labor, 327-331; and affirmative action, 15-24; agriculture, 32-39, 806-808; and Civil War, 226; competition with Irish Americans, 460; defense industries, 277-283; and Equal Employment Opportunity Act, 331-338; and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 338-339; and Fair Employment Practices Committee, 340-342; and Freedmen’s Bureau, 368; and Great Migration, 400; and Jim Crow laws, 476; League of Revolutionary Black Workers, 530-532; and National Urban League, 659-661; and Native Americans, 662; occupations, 108, 305, 309; railroads, 138-140; and Randolph, A. Philip, 1118; sharecropping, 806-808; and urbanization, 311; and Washington, Booker T., 317; and World War II, 467, 1021
. See also Slavery
Labor movement, 131, 139, 279, 530-532
Lance v. Wilson, 398
Lassiter v. Northampton County Board of Elections, 530, 953
Latimer, Lewis Henry, 779
Lawrence, Robert, 781
LDF
. See National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal
Defense and Educational Fund
League of Revolutionary Black Workers, 131, 530-532
Leaphart, Vincent, 621
Lecompton Constitution, 135
Lee, George, 261
Lee, Robert E., 301
Lee, Spike, 355, 1113
LeFlore, John, 742
Legal Defense Fund
. See National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal
Defense and Educational Fund
Leibowitz, Samuel, 789
L’Enfant, Pierre, 777
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” (King), 92, 209, 450, 978, 1113
Levison, Stanley, 881, 883
Lewis, John, 253
Lewis, Monroe, 240
Lewis and Clark expedition, 663
Liberator, The, 2, 5, 44, 532-537, 690, 732, 1106
Liberty Party, 45, 535, 692
Liele, George, 79
Lincoln, Abraham, 247, 862, 1113; assassination of, 926; and Civil War, 227, 298-302; Emancipation Proclamation, 323-326; and Reconstruction, 177; and slavery, 250, 323-326
Lincoln, C. Eric, 98
Lincoln-Douglas debates, 134, 924
Lincoln University, 62-66
Lindbergh law, 526
Lindsay, John V., 500
Listen Chicago (radio program), 572
Literacy tests, 190, 205, 207, 296, 348, 419, 530, 718, 961; and grandfather clauses, 398-399; Mississippi, 294-298; outlawing of, 530, 990-996; and understanding tests, 952-953; and Voting Rights Act of 1965, 985
Literature, 537-544; and Harlem Renaissance, 426-433; Roots, 767-768
Little Rock school desegregation crisis, 208, 215, 258, 544-548, 646, 774; and the media, 572
Liuzzo, Viola Lee, 527
Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976, 391
Locke, Alain, 1114
Logan, James, 706
Lopez, Narcisco, 490
Los Angeles; Harlins murder, 434; King beating case, 515-519, 1113; police, 515-519, 548, 814-816, 1000; Simpson murder trial, 813-818; Watts riot, 999-1002
Los Angeles riots of 1992, 518, 522, 548-552, 752
Lost-Found Nation of Islam, 1116
Louis, Joe, 894-895, 901
Louisiana; bombings, 169; demographics, 291; elections, 718, 984; Jim Crow laws, 477; New Orleans riot, 737-741; Plessy v. Ferguson, 708-713; slavery, 285
Louisiana Purchase, 244, 606, 851
Louisiana v. United States, 953
Louisville, New Orleans, and Texas Railway Company v. Mississippi, 552
Loving v. Virginia, 601, 712
Lowery, Joseph E., 881, 1114
Lowndes County Freedom Organization, 124
Lowry, Robert, 295
Lynching, 302, 524, 553-557, 960, 1021; Dyer antilynching bill, 302-304; and rape, 900; Till, Emmett, 931-932, 1122
McCarthyism, 253
McCleskey v. Kemp, 557-558, 997
McCormick, Cyrus, 777
McCoy, Elijah, 778
McCullough, William M., 746
McDonald v. Santa Fe Transportation Company, 962
McDuffie, Arthur, 752
McKay, Claude, 427, 432, 467, 1004, 1114
McKissick, Floyd, 1115
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, 141, 558-559, 772
McNair, Ronald, 781
McReynolds, James C., 728
Maddox, Alton, 270
Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie, 1094
Magazines, 571; African Intelligencer, The, 64; Black Enterprise, 571, 1005, 1107; Black Woman’s Voice, 659; Crisis, The, 501, 571, 637, 660, 1125; Ebony, 571, 1111; Jet, 571, 932; and Johnson, John H., 1111; Negro Digest, The, 571, 1111; Opportunity, 660; Sister’s Magazine, 659; Southern Workman, The, 570
Magnet schools, 458
Maine; abolitionism, 10; and Missouri Compromise, 244, 606-611; slavery, 607
“Majority-minority” districts, 808-811
Malcolm X, 121, 124, 129, 539, 559, 633, 1115; assassination of, 559-564, 1116; and civil rights, 190; and Farrakhan, Louis, 1105; and Haley, Alex, 1107; and Kennedy, John F., 634; and King, Martin Luther, Jr., 799; and the media, 562; and Vietnam War, 981
Malone, Annie Turnbo, 779
Mamiya, Lawrence H., 98
Mandela, Nelson, 275
Manley, Norman, 701
Mann, Woodrow, 546, 774
Mansfield, Michael H., 942
March on Selma, 911
March on Washington, 209, 211, 911; and “I Have a Dream” speech, 449-454; and National Urban League, 661; and Randolph, A. Philip, 1118; and Rustin, Bayard, 1120
March on Washington movement, 341, 719, 1020
Margold, Nathan, 771
Mariel boatlift, 272
Marrant, John, 379
Marshall, Thurgood, 13, 65, 641, 644, 771, 792, 812, 918, 1115; appointed to Supreme Court, 564-568; and Johnson, Lyndon B., 1111; retirement of, 928
Martin v. Wilks, 568
Martinet, Louis, 709
Mary, Alexander A., 709
Maryland; demographics, 291
Mason, James, 388
Massachusetts; abolitionism, 7; Freemasons, 377-381; and fugitive slave laws, 385; and slave trade, 868; slavery, 59, 865-869
Matney, William C., Jr., 574
Matthew, Wentworth Arthur, 115
May, Samuel, 42
Mays, Benjamin, 508
Mays, Willie, 901
Meagher, Timothy, 236
Media, 569-576; and Black Panther Party, 124; and Civil Rights movement, 92-93, 374, 488, 573, 727, 799, 910; and Congressional Black Caucus, 256; and Farrakhan, Louis, 594; and King, Martin Luther, Jr., 251; and lynching, 556; and Malcolm X, 562; and Million Man March, 594; and music, 624-631; and Simpson murder trial, 813-818; and stereotypes, 900-901; and Thomas-Hill hearings, 928-930; and University of Mississippi, 976; and Wilder, L. Douglas, 1011
Medical sciences, 781
Memphis; radio stations, 573; riots, 737-741
Memphis Free Speech, 1124
Mennonites, 705
Men’s liberation, 335
Meredith, James H., 129, 375, 646, 974-979, 1115
Meredith v. Fair, 646
Metro Broadcasting v. Federal Communications Commission, 22
Mexican War, 244, 387, 851
Mfume, Kweisi, 1093, 1095
Miami riots of 1980, 272, 576-579, 752
Micheaux, Oscar, 353
Michigan, 696
Military conscription, 580, 587, 980, 1023; and Ali, Muhammad, 982; Civil War, 228, 298-302; World War II, 1020
Military desegregation, 278, 455, 579, 583-591; and Randolph, A. Philip, 1118
Military history, 579-583; Brownsville incident, 145-146; buffalo soldiers, 147-150; desegregation of defense industries, 277-283; Vietnam War, 979-983; World War II, 1020-1025
Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867, 716
Militia Act of 1862, 298
Miller, Samuel F., 819
Miller v. Johnson, 396
Milliken v. Bradley, 592-593
Million Man March, 593-597, 634; and Chavis, Benjamin, 1101
Million Woman March, 597-600
Minimum wage laws, 36, 289; and agricultural workers, 310
Minor v. Happersett, 761
Minority business enterprises, 391
Minority “set asides,” 392
Minstrel shows, 476, 626-627; and basketball, 893
Miscegenation laws, 600-603, 699; banning of, 712
Mississippi, 374, 603, 910; bombings, 169; and Council of Federated Organizations, 260-267; demographics, 291, 399; elected officials, 722; elections, 718, 984; Freedom Summer, 374-377; Jim Crow laws, 477; lynching, 554; poll taxes, 435; and slave trade, 417; University of Mississippi, 974-979
Mississippi Burning (film), 376, 527, 1018
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 375, 603-606, 911, 1098, 1108
Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan, 21
Missouri Compromise, 61, 244, 492, 606-611, 783, 851; and Kansas-Nebraska Act, 490
Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada, 141, 612
Mitchell, Arthur W., 718-719
Mitchell, Clarence, 195
Mitchell, Parren, 167
Mitchell, William H., 951
Mobile, Alabama, 236, 742; curfew, 477; elections, 613; riot, 741-745
Mobile v. Bolden, 613, 988
“Model” minorities, 1003
Monagas, Lionel, 573
Mondale, Walter F., 343, 462-465
Monroe, James, 610
Montgomery bus boycott, 204, 209, 614-619, 1096, 1117
Moore v. Dempsey, 619-620, 640
Moose Lodge v. Irvis, 151, 620-621, 813
Morgan v. Virginia, 481
Morley, Burton R., 742
Morrison, Toni, 542-543, 1116
Moses, Robert, 261
Motley, Constance Baker, 646, 1004
Motown Records, 629, 1107
Mott, Lucretia, 8
MOVE, Philadelphia police bombing of, 621-623
Movies
. See Films
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 468, 623, 845
Moynihan Report, 623-624
Muhammad, Elijah, 120, 539, 631-635, 1116; and Malcolm X, 559-564, 1115
Muhammad, Warith “Wallace,” 634
Muhammad Speaks, 562
Murray, Anna, 689
Murray, Anna E., 241
Murrow, Edward R., 573
Music, 624-631; and Harlem Renaissance, 426-433; and radio, 572, 628-629; and slavery, 840
Muslim Mosque, Inc., 563
Mutual Black Network, 573
NAACP
. See National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Nabrit, James M., Jr., 645
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 689
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 701
Nation of Islam, 120, 474, 539, 559, 631-635; book publishing, 570; and Farrakhan, Louis, 1105; and Malcolm X, 1115; and Muhammad, Elijah, 1116
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 153, 635-636, 678, 746, 751, 998
National Anti-Slavery Standard, 10, 691
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70, 147, 302, 317, 341, 375, 556, 614, 636-643, 742, 746, 786, 792, 875, 912, 921, 1104; book publishing, 570; and Chavis, Benjamin, 1101; and Council of Federated Organizations, 260; and Evers, Medgar, 1105; and Farmer, James, 1105; and Hooks, Benjamin, 1108; and Johnson, James Weldon, 1110; and Jordan, Vernon, 1111; and lynching, 900; and Marshall, Thurgood, 1115; membership, 585; and Niagara Movement, 684; and Parks, Rosa, 1117; and restrictive covenants, 812; and school desegregation, 771; and Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1124; and White, Walter, 1125; and Wilkins, Roy, 1125; and World War II, 1022
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, 140, 405, 592, 641, 643-649, 771
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama, 650-651
National Association of Colored Women, 241, 651-652
National Black Caucus of State Legislators, 721
National Black Feminist Organization, 242
National Black Network, 573
National Black Women’s Political Leadership Caucus, 652-653
National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, 653-654
National Conference of Black Mayors, 721
National Council of Black Mayors, 721
National Council of Colored People, 654-657
National Council of Negro Women, 658-659, 1099
National Council of Women, 241
National League of Colored Women, 240-241
National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, 659
National Negro Business League, 306, 1106, 1124
National Organization for Women, 218
National Urban League, 659-661, 912; and Jordan, Vernon, 1111; and Wilder, L. Douglas, 1125; and Young, Whitney, 1126
Native Americans, 661-666; and buffalo soldiers, 147-150; and fugitive slaves, 947
Native Son (Wright), 542
N’COBRA
. See National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America
Negro Act of 1740, 905
Negro Conventions, 28, 655, 667-669, 1096
Negro Declaration of Independence, 682
Negro Digest, The, 571, 1111
Negro Factories Corporation, 972
Negro Leagues, 891
Negro World, The, 972
Negro Yearbook, The, 570
Neville, Dinah, 704
New England Anti-Slavery Society, 44, 922
New National Era, 692
“New Negro,” 429
New Orleans; Jim Crow laws, 477; riots, 737-741
New York; and fugitive slave laws, 385
New York Age, 1106
New York City; demographics, 399; Hawkins murder, 441-442; slave revolt, 669-674
New York Manumission Society, 60
New York riots, 674-676
Newark riots, 677-679, 751, 1001
Newberry v. United States, 418, 679-681, 686, 958, 1009
Newspapers, 571; Black Panther, The, 127; Chicago Defender, 288, 309, 401; Commonwealth, 862; Freedom’s Journal, 571; Garvey’s Watchman, 970; Liberator, The, 2, 5, 532-537; Memphis Free Speech, 1124; Muhammad Speaks, 562; Mystery, The, 1103; National Anti-Slavery Standard, 10; Negro World, The, 972; New York Age, 1106; North Star, The, 571, 689-693; Provincial Freeman, The, 10
Newton, Huey P., 121, 124, 132, 1116
Niagara Movement, 317, 501, 637, 681-685, 920, 1104
Nicodemus, Kansas, 795
Nixon, L. A., 875
Nixon, Richard M.; and Chisholm, Shirley, 165-166; and Congressional Black Caucus, 256, 721; and school desegregation, 40; and Supreme Court, 915
Nixon v. Condon, 206, 418, 641, 685-687, 876, 1009
Nixon v. Herndon, 205, 348, 418, 685-687, 875, 1009
Nkrumah, Kwame, 701, 1101, 1104
NOI
. See Nation of Islam
Nonviolence, philosophy of, 908
Nonviolent direct action, 618
Nonviolent resistance, 618
Norris, Isaac, 706
Norris v. Alabama, 687-688
North Carolina; elections, 718; Jim Crow laws, 477
North Star, The, 571, 689-693, 1104
Northwest Ordinance of 1787, 244, 382, 608, 694-698, 824, 851
Nott, Josiah, 734, 829
Oberlin College, 950
Oberlin Rescuers, 2
Office for Civil Rights, 216
Oglethorpe, James, 904
Ohio, 696
One-drop rule, 698-699
One person, one vote concept, 613
O’Neill, Eugene, 139, 1119
Operation Breadbasket, 462, 1109, 1121
Operation PUSH, 463, 1109
Opportunity, 660
Orangeburg massacre, 699-700
Ordinance of 1784, 694
Oregon v. Mitchell, 350
Organization for Black Americans to Support Israel, 1120
Organization of Afro-American Unity, 563, 1115
Owen, Robert Dale, 924
Owens, Jesse, 1116
Pacifism, 535
Padmore, George, 701
Paige, Satchel, 891
Paine, Thomas, 707
Palmer v. Thompson, 700-701
Pan-Africanism, 701-702; and Carmichael, Stokely, 1101
Pánfilo de Narváez, 662
Panic of 1837, 44
Paradise, United States v
. See United States v. Paradise
Parker, Theodore, 437
Parks, Rosa, 101, 209, 615-616, 1117
Patents, 777
Patterson, Frederick D., 953, 1117
Patterson, Mary Jane, 241
Patterson, Orlando, 826, 845
Patterson, Robert B., 1007
Patterson v. McLean Credit Union, 198, 702-703
Payne, Daniel Alexander, 1117
Payton, Philip A., Jr., 402
Peden, Katherine Graham, 746
Pemberton, Israel, 704
Pemberton, James, 704
Pennington, James, 655
Pennsylvania; and fugitive slave laws, 385; slavery in, 703
Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, 703-708
Peremptory challenge, 314
Persian Gulf War, 582
Person, Waverly, 781
Peters, Brock, 354
Phillips, Wendell, 535, 832, 924
Pickering, William, 608
Picket, Bill, 268
Pierce, Franklin, 134, 490, 494
Pilmore, Joseph, 366
Pilots, 937-939
Pinchback, P. B. S., 716, 1014
Plessy, Homer Adolph, 709
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), 140, 180, 207, 258, 478, 641, 708-713, 791, 917; and schools, 770; and separate but equal doctrine, 805
Poets, 540; and abolitionist movement, 10; and Harlem Renaissance, 427, 431
Poitier, Sidney, 354, 1004
Police brutality, 93, 126, 153, 274, 450, 509, 516, 548; and King, Rodney, 515-519; and riots, 272, 548-552, 576-579, 677, 739, 745-749, 751-752, 1000; and Scottsboro case, 788
Politics and government, 713-723
Poll taxes, 205-206, 296, 347, 718, 723-725, 961, 1018; banning of, 435-436, 941-947, 990; and grandfather clauses, 398-399; Mississippi, 294-298; and Twenty-fourth Amendment, 941-947; and Voting Rights Act of 1965, 983, 986
Poor People’s Campaign, 1001
Poor People’s March, 725-727
Port Chicago incident, 1023
Porters, 138-140, 279, 309, 401
Poverty, 675, 725-727; and race, 320, 330, 623
Powell, Adam Clayton, 130
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1117
Powell, Colin, 582, 1003, 1118; and Vietnam War, 982
Powell, Isaac, 781
Powell, James, 674
Powell, Laurence, 516
Powell, Lewis F., Jr., 19; Batson v. Kentucky, 90; McCleskey v. Kemp, 557
Powell v. Alabama, 688, 727-728
Powers v. Ohio, 91, 728-729
President’s Committee on Civil Rights, 556, 719, 729-731, 1024, 1122
Price, Hugh, 661
Prigg v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 385, 388
Private discrimination; Moose Lodge v. Irvis, 620
Project C, 92
Proposition 14, 343
Proslavery argument, 1, 437, 731-735, 936
Provincial Freeman, The, 10
Public accommodations, desegregation of, 252
Public Health Service, U.S., 939-940
Public schools; desegregation of, 192, 913
Public Works Employment Act of 1977, 392
Puritans, 537, 866, 869
Purvis, Robert, 951
Purvis, W. B., 779
Quakers; and Underground Railroad, 950
Queen Anne’s War, 672
Quotas
. See Affirmative action
Race; one-drop rule, 698-699
“Race music,” 572
Race relations; and slavery, 843-850
Race riots, 745-749
Race riots of 1866, 737-741
Race riots of 1943, 281
Race riots of the twentieth century, 635, 750-753
Racial discrimination; and White Citizens’ Councils, 1007-1009
Racism; and proslavery argument, 731-735
Radical Reconstructionism, 524
Radical Republicans, 524, 714
Radio broadcasting, 571; and music, 572, 628-629
Ragtime, 626
Rainbow Coalition, 462, 753-754
Rainey, Ma, 431
Randolph, A. Philip, 139, 279-280, 341, 450, 587, 719, 912, 1118; and March on Washington movement, 1020
Rap music, 630
R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, 735-736
Rayburn, Sam, 888
Read, George, 383
Reagan, Ronald; and affirmative action, 22; and civil rights, 218, 957; and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 339; and Haitians, 423; and Jackson, Jesse, 462-463; and Powell, Colin, 1118
Reapportionment, 397
Reconstruction, 248, 359, 524, 529, 714, 755-763, 790; Colfax massacre, 239-240; Compromise of 1877, 248-249; and Hayes, Rutherford B., 1108; Jim Crow laws, 476-479; race riots, 737-741; and sharecropping, 806-808; Slaughterhouse Cases, 819-820; and Stevens, Thaddeus, 1121
Reconstruction Acts, 201
Red Scare, 525
Redding, Louis, 645
Redistricting, 808-811; and gerrymandering, 393-397
Redlining, 344
Reed, Ishmael, 543
Reese, United States v
. See United States v. Reese
Refugees; Cuban, 421; U.S. policy, 273, 421
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
. See Bakke case
Rehnquist, William H., 1019; Martin v. Wilks, 568; Moose Lodge v. Irvis, 620; Shaw v. Hunt, 809
Reitman v. Mulkey, 343, 763-765
Reparations; and National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, 653-654; and Republic of New Africa, 765
Republic of New Africa, 765-766
Republican Party, 247, 357, 420, 494, 536; and Reconstruction, 714
Restrictive covenants, 340, 766-767, 812-813
Restrictive or racial covenants, 480
Resurrection City, 725
Revels, Hiram R., 717, 926
Revivalism, 78
Reynolds, Grant, 279
Reynolds, Humphrey, 779
Rhode Island; and fugitive slave laws, 385
Rhythm and blues, 628
Rice, Condoleezza, 1118-1119
Rice, Thomas D. “Big Daddy,” 476
Richmond v. J. A. Croson Company, 21, 198
Rickey, Branch, 82-90
Rillieux, Norbert, 778
Riots, 211, 741-745; Los Angeles, 999-1001; Memphis, 737-741; New Orleans, 737-741
Robb, Charles S., 1011
Roberts, Owen J., 876
Robeson, Paul, 572, 892, 1119
Robinson, Elizabeth, 8
Robinson, Jackie, 82-90, 892, 1024, 1119
Robinson, Spotswood W., III, 645
Rock and roll, 628
Rodgers, Jonathan, 574
Rogers v. Lodge, 613
Rome v. United States, 350
Romney, George, 747
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 94
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 278, 341, 746, 1120; and Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1099; and Black cabinet, 94; and Davis, Benjamin O., Sr., 1103; and the Depression, 35; desegregation of defense industries, 277-283; election of, 719; and military segregation, 585; and World War II, 1020
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1124; and Brownsville incident, 145-146; in Spanish-American War, 149
Roots (Haley) , 767-768, 1097, 1107
Runyon v. McCrary, 480, 703, 768-770
Rush, Benjamin, 365, 704, 922
Russell, Richard B., 186, 942-944
Russwurm, John B., 571
Rustin, Bayard, 155, 450, 481-490, 881-882, 1120
Sacagawea, 664
Sackler, Howard, 1110
St. George’s Methodist Episcopal Church, 26, 98, 363
Sanborn, Franklin B., 437
Savoy Ballroom, 428
Schnell v. Davis, 348
School busing, 167, 404-405, 456, 506-507, 592-593, 913-917; and Ku Klux Klan, 527; and Nixon, Richard M., 915
School desegregation, 768-776; Little Rock crisis, 544-548, 774; and White Citizens’ Councils, 1007-1009
Schwerner, Michael Henry, 219-225, 254, 263, 375, 472, 908
Science and technology, 776-782
SCLC
. See Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Scott, Dred, 783-786, 1120
Scott, Winfield, 490
Scott v. Sandford, 200, 396, 783-786, 923, 1120
Scottsboro cases, 687-688, 727-728, 786-790
Screvane, Paul, 676
Seale, Bobby, 121, 124, 1116, 1121
Second Amendment, 180
Secret Six, 437
Sectionalism, 244
Security Act of 1739, 903
Sedgwick, Theodore, 383
Segregation, 150, 372, 674, 790-793, 848, 890; de facto and de jure, 790; Jim Crow laws, 476-479; and Plessy v. Ferguson, 708-713; restrictive covenants, 766-767
Segregation on the frontier, 793-797
Self-incrimination, immunity against, 144
Selma-Montgomery march, 209, 797-804
Seminole Wars, 662, 664
Separate but equal doctrine, 192, 208, 552, 612, 614, 641, 791, 805-806; Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education, 276-277; and education, 917-918; McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, 558; and Plessy v. Ferguson, 708-713
Separate spheres, 6
Set-asides, 14
Seventy, The, 44
Seymour, Horatio, 301
Shabazz, El-Hajj Malik El- (Malcolm X), 1115
Sharecropping, 33, 35-36, 308, 327, 806-808, 834, 846; demise of, 310; and demographics, 289
Sharpe, John, 671
Sharpton, Al, 270, 1121
Shaw v. Hunt, 808-810
Shaw v. Reno, 396, 809-811
Shelley v. Kraemer, 147, 480, 766, 812-813
Shelton, Robert, 527
Sheridan Broadcasting, 573
Shores family, 796
Shuttlesworth, Fred, 881
Simmons, William J., 525
Simpson, Nicole Brown, 814
Simpson, O. J., 768, 813-818
Sister’s Magazine, 659
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, bombing of, 215
Slaughterhouse Cases, 710, 758, 819-820
Slave codes, 821-826, 855; Massachusetts, 866; Ohio, 824; South Carolina, 905; Virginia, 821, 854, 870
Slave narratives, 537, 839
Slave rebellions, 48, 669, 750
Slave trade, 235, 828, 831; Clotilde capture, 234-239; demographics of, 283, 286; and economy, 304; internal, 246, 304, 417; outlawing of, 922
Slavery, 202, 226, 249, 327, 826-835, 850; and agriculture, 32, 304; of American Indians, 662; “badges and incidents,” 202, 480; and citizenship, 783-786; and Civil War, 323-326, 851; in Connecticut, 60; cotton gin and, 60; demographics of, 283, 285-286; and Emancipation Proclamation, 323-326; and families, 835-843; in Georgia, 61; Great Awakening and, 78; and illiteracy, 569, 855; and justice system, 850-857; legalization of, 821, 870; in Massachusetts, 59, 865-869; and national politics, 713; and Native Americans, 664; in New Hampshire, 59; in New Jersey, 60; in New York, 60, 669; and Northwest Ordinance, 694-698; in Northwest Territory, 823; in Pennsylvania, 59; proslavery argument, 731-735; and race relations, 828, 843-850; and reparations, 653-654; in Rhode Island, 59; in South Carolina, 61; and Thirteenth Amendment, 922-927; and U.S. Constitution, 382, 852; and Underground Railroad, 947-952; in Vermont, 59; in Virginia, 870-875; and women, 858-865
Smith, Barbara, 242
Smith, Bessie, 428, 431
Smith, Beverly, 242
Smith, Gerrit, 437, 692, 853
Smith, James McCune, 655
Smith, Lamar, 261
Smith v. Allwright, 206, 348, 641, 686-687, 875-879, 1010
SNCC
. See Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Social reform movements and women, 6
Society of Free People of Color, 28, 365
Society of Friends (Quakers), 5-6, 59, 704, 922, 950
Sons of Liberty, 229
Soto, Hernando de, 662
Soul City, 1115
Soul on Ice (Cleaver), 1102
Souls of Black Folk, The (Du Bois), 70, 539
South Carolina; bombings, 169; demographics, 399; elections, 718, 984; Jim Crow laws, 477; slave trade, 61, 285; Stono Rebellion, 902-907
South Carolina v. Katzenbach, 350, 530, 987
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 209, 375, 450, 618, 879-887, 908, 1096; Birmingham March, 91-94; and Chavis, Benjamin, 1101; and Council of Federated Organizations, 260; and Jackson, Jesse, 1109; and King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1112; and Lowery, Joseph E., 1114; and Poor People’s March on Washington, 725-727; and Rustin, Bayard, 1120; and Selma-Montgomery march, 798; and Young, Andrew, 1126
Southern Conference of Black Mayors, 721
Southern Manifesto, 773, 887-889
Southern Poverty Law Center, 1099
Southern Tenant Farmers Union, 36
Southern Workman, The, 570
Sowell, Thomas, 456, 468, 1002
Spanish-American War, 149, 277, 583
Sparks, Chauncey, 742
Spingarn, Joel E., 638, 640
Spirituals, 625
Spoils system, 492
Sports, 889-898; Ali, Muhammad, 1096; Johnson, Jack, 1110; Owens, Jesse, 1116; Robinson, Jackie, 1119
Springfield, Illinois; race riot, 683
Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 300
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 927
Stanton, Frederick P., 135
States’ rights, 208, 246, 389, 610
States’ Rights Party (Dixiecrats), 720
Stearns, George Luther, 437
Steele, Charles Kenzie, 881
Steele, Shelby, 848
Steinberg, Stephen, 468
Stephens, Alexander, 494
Stereotypes, 353, 898-902
Stevens, Thaddeus, 1121
Stewart, Potter, 414, 480; Mobile v. Bolden, 613
Stokes, Carl B., 721
Stone, John M., 295
Stone, Lucy, 8, 10, 927
Stoneman, George, 739
Stono Rebellion, 902-907
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 862
Strauder v. West Virginia, 760, 907
Stringfellow, Thornton, 733
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 117, 129, 210, 375, 908-912, 1100; and Carmichael, Stokely, 1101; and Council of Federated Organizations, 260; founding of, 411; and Hamer, Fannie Lou, 1108; and Selma-Montgomery march, 798
Student rights movement, 132
Students for a Democratic Society, 133
Summit Meeting of National Negro Leaders, 912-913
Sumner, Charles, 201, 494
Supreme Court, U.S.; and Marshall, Thurgood, 564-568; on redistricting, 395; and Thomas, Clarence, 1121
Sutherland, George; Powell v. Alabama, 728
Swain v. Alabama, 90
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education, 456, 592, 913-917
Sweatt v. Painter, 141, 559, 612, 771, 792, 917-918
Syphilis, 939-940
Taft, William Howard, 1124
Talented Tenth, 318, 639, 919-921
Talton v. Mayes, 197
Tan, 571
Taney, Roger Brooke, 417
Tapisco, Jacob, 26
Tappan, Arthur, 42, 535
Taylor, Zachary, 246
Television broadcasting, 573; and Civil Rights movement, 573; impact of, 92, 130; Roots, 767-768
Temple, Lewis, 778
Tenant farming, 33
Tennessee; demographics, 291; Jim Crow laws, 477; Memphis riot, 737-741
Tennis, 895
Tenth Amendment, 925
Terrell, Mary Church, 241
Terry v. Adams, 348, 878, 921-922, 1010
Texas; Jim Crow laws, 477; lynching, 554-555; poll taxes, 435; riots, 743
Third Amendment, 180
Thirteenth Amendment, 2, 200, 203, 231, 358, 710, 755, 922-928; and Civil Rights cases, 202-204
Thomas, Clarence, 14, 928-930, 1121; and affirmative action, 22, 929; and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 339; and Hill, Anita, 1108
Thomas, Franklin, 1004
Thomas, J. B., 608
Thomas, United States v
. See United States v. Thomas
Thomas-Hill hearings, 928-930
Thompson, William C., 163
Thornburg v. Gingles, 988
Thornton, Charles B. (Tex), 746
Three-fifths compromise, 357, 360, 607, 697, 714, 852, 930-931
Thurmond, Strom, 445, 720, 888
Tilden, Samuel J., 248
Till, Emmett, 554, 931-932, 1122
To Kill a Mockingbird (film), 354
To Secure These Rights, 281, 587, 730-731
Tobacco farming, 32, 286, 304
Toomer, Jean, 541
Toure, Kwame (Stokely Carmichael), 1101
Touré, Sékou, 1101
Townsend, Robert, 355
Trotter, William Monroe, 501, 637, 919
Truman, Harry S., 281, 1122; and civil rights, 455, 556, 585, 719, 729-731, 812, 1024, 1122; desegregation of military, 579, 587, 590
Trumbull, Lyman, 106
Truth, Sojourner, 11, 44, 862-863, 1122; and Douglass, Frederick, 11
Tubman, Harriet, 11, 44, 538, 863, 924, 950, 1122
Turner, Henry McNeal, 1123
Turner, Nat, 1123
Turner’s slave insurrection, 732, 933-937
Tuskegee Airmen, 937-939, 1022; and Davis, Benjamin O., Jr., 1103
Tuskegee experiment, 939-940
Tuskegee Institute, 67, 108, 316, 570, 639, 953, 970; and Carver, George Washington, 779; and Patterson, Frederick D., 1117; and Washington, Booker T., 1124
Tustennuggee Emartha (Jim Boy), 664
Twenty-fourth Amendment, 941-947, 990
UNCF
. See United Negro College Fund
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 390, 490, 862
Underground Railroad, 44, 825, 863, 924, 947-952; and Tubman, Harriet, 1122; and women, 10-11
Understanding tests, 952-953
Underwood, Oscar, 303
UNIA
. See Universal Negro Improvement Association
Union League, 524, 716
United African Movement, 1121
United Auto Workers, 530-532, 746, 1021
United House of Prayer for All People, 1107
United Negro College Fund, 109, 953-954, 1111; and Patterson, Frederick D., 1117
United Negro Improvement Association; and Malcolm X, 1115
United States Colored Infantry Regiments, 147-150
United States Commission on Civil Rights, 954-958
United States v. Classic, 419, 876, 958-959, 1010
United States v. Cruikshank, 201, 759, 959-960
United States v. Harris, 759
United States v. Paradise, 21
United States v. Reese, 759, 961
United States v. Thomas, 348
United Steelworkers of America v. Weber, 17, 962-968
Universal Negro Improvement Association, 120, 403, 560, 969-974, 1106
University of Alabama, 978
University of California v. Bakke
. See Bakke case
University of Georgia, 978
University of Mississippi, 974-979, 1115
Up from Slavery (Washington), 538, 970, 1124
Urban unrest, 674, 677, 997
Urbanization, 112, 288-291; and labor, 311; and National Urban League, 659-661
Van Buren, Martin, 49
Vassa, Gustavas, 537
Venable, James, 527
Vermont; and fugitive slave laws, 385
Vietnam War, 212, 979-983; and Civil Rights movement, 981-982; and King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1113; and women, 980
Vietnamese Americans, 527
Villa, Pancho, 148
Vinson, Fred M., 142, 918
Virginia; bombings, 169; demographics, 291, 399; election of L. Douglas Wilder, 1010-1017; elections, 718; Jim Crow laws, 477; poll taxes, 435; slavery, 870-875; Turner’s slave insurrection, 933-937
Virginia v. Rives, 761
Vote, right to, 347, 398
Voting rights, 183, 204, 294, 360, 419-420, 529, 603, 716, 961, 1025-1026; and at-large elections, 613; and Civil Rights movement, 720; and disfranchisement, 717; and gerrymandering, 393-397; and grandfather clauses, 398-399; Lassiter v. Northampton County Board of Elections, 530; and poll taxes, 723-725; and understanding tests, 952-953; and White primaries, 418-419, 685-687, 1009-1010
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 207, 212, 349, 435, 455, 720, 878, 956, 983-989, 999; and Johnson, Lyndon B., 1111; and redistricting, 395; and Selma-Montgomery march, 797-804; and understanding tests, 952-953
Voting Rights Act of 1975, 990-996
Wade, Wyn, 1008
Waite, Morrison R., 759
Walcott, Derek, 1004
Walker, Alice, 543, 1123
Walker, Madame C. J., 779
Walker v. City of Birmingham, 646
Wallace, George, 172, 800-801, 945, 991
Wallace, Henry, 588
Walthall, Edward C., 295
War Manpower Commission, 742
War Without Violence (Shridharani), 251
Ward, Samuel Ringgold, 367
Wards Cove Packing Company v. Atonio, 198, 416
Warmoth, Henry Clay, 717
Warren, Earl, 137, 208, 772, 1123; Brown v. Board of Education, 142
Washington, Booker T., 108, 316, 538, 639, 681, 919, 970, 1124; accommodationist program, 501; Atlanta Compromise, 67-70; and Du Bois, W. E. B., 1124; and Fortune, T. Thomas, 1106; and Garvey, Marcus, 970; and National Negro Business League, 306
Washington, D.C., riots, 997-999
Washington, George, 277, 377, 777; and slavery, 383-384, 950
Washington Colored Woman’s League, 240-241
Washington v. Davis, 996-997
Waters, Muddy, 628
Watts riot, 212, 751, 999-1002
Weaver, John D., 146
Weaver, Robert, 94
Webster, Daniel, 389
Wells, Benjamin, 26
Wells, James Madison, 739
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1124
Wesberry v. Sanders, 395
West, Cornel, 471
West Indians, 268-270, 1002-1006; Jamaicans, 466-469
Whatcoat, Richard, 363
Wheatley, Phillis, 540
Whig Party, 245, 490
Whipper, William, 951
White, Byron R.; Washington v. Davis, 996
White, Walter, 341, 585, 639, 744, 1022, 1125
White, William, 364
White Citizens’ Councils, 641, 1007-1009
White flight, 113
White League, 239
White primaries, 205, 348, 418-419, 641, 645, 680-681, 685-687, 958, 1009-1010; Smith v. Allwright, 875; Terry v. Adams, 921-922
White supremacist groups, 523
White supremacy, 171, 529
White v. Regester, 988
Whitfield, James H., 538
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 42
Wilberforce University, 1117
Wilder, L. Douglas, 1010-1017, 1125
Wilkins, Roy, 500, 639, 912, 1125
Williams, Eric, 701
Williams v. Mississippi, 1017-1018
Wilmington Ten, 1101
Wilmot Proviso, 244, 851
Wilson, Lionel, 1116
Winfrey, Oprah, 574
Winthrop, John, 866
Wisconsin, 696
Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 737, 1018-1019
Wise, Henry A., 439-440
Woman suffrage, 927
Women; in literature, 1123; Million Woman March, 597-600; National Association of Colored Women, 651-652; National Black Women’s Political Leadership Caucus, 652-653; National Council of Negro Women, 658-659; and slavery, 858-865; and Underground Railroad, 950; and Vietnam War, 980; Women’s movement, 242
Women’s Center for Education and Career Advancement, 658
Woods, Granville, 779
Woods, Tiger, 896
Woodson, Carter G., 32, 1125
Woodward, Isaac, 1024
World War I, 277; and Great Migration, 308
World War II, 281, 1020-1025; and Civil Rights movement, 584; and labor, 467, 1021; and Louis, Joe, 894; and Muhammad, Elijah, 1116; and race riots, 741-745; Tuskegee Airmen, 937-939
Wright, Fielding, 720
Wright, Richard, 430, 542, 1125
Wyandotte Constitution, 136
Yama Craw Church, 80
Yarbrough, Ex parte, 760, 1025-1026
Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 1017
York, 663
Young, Andrew, 1015, 1126
Young, Whitney M., Jr., 661, 1126
Young Communist League, 1120
Zoning, 344
Zoot-suit riots, 743




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