Montgomery
bus boycott 43–52, 81
and the Freedom Ride 67–8
Selma to Montgomery March 117–23
Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) 46, 49,
51
Moody, Anne 29
Moore, Amzie 100
Moore, Harry 20
Moreno, Rita 90
Moses, Bob 101–3, 104
Moses, Robert Parris 55– 6, 61
Motley, Constance Baker 71
Moton, Leroy 122
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick 134
Muhammad Ali 80
Muhammad, Elijah 80, 115
music
and the Albany Movement 79
black musicians 19–20
‘freedom songs’ 59–60
and the March on Washington 89, 90, 91–2
and the Selma to Montgomery March 121, 122
Muslim slave traders 1–2
Myrdal, Gunnar 18
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People) 15 –16, 19, 20
and the Battle of Ole Miss 71
and Black Power 132
and bus desegregation 44, 46, 50
and the Civil Rights Act 53
decline of 134
and the Freedom Ride 64, 67
and the March on Washington 87
and school desegregation 22, 26–7, 30, 34, 35
and sit-ins 55, 59, 60
and the VEP 70
and voter registration 100, 101, 113
Nash, Diane 56, 60, 67, 91
Nashville sit-in 56 – 8, 60
National Advisory Commission, report on Civil
Disorders 154 –5
Nazi racism 118
Neibuhr, Reinhold 47
neighbourhood segregation 17, 18, 19
northern ghettoes 127–9
McKissick, Floyd 55
McNair, Denise 92–3
McNamara, Robert 83
McNeil, Joseph 54
McShane, James 73
Malcolm X 80, 92, 115–16, 130–1, 132
speech in Cleveland (1964) 148–9
Malone, Vivian 84, 85
Mann, Floyd 67, 68
Mann, Woodrow Wilson 35, 40
Manucy, Holstead ‘Hoss’ 94
March Against Fear 129–30
March on Washington 87–92
marriage, interracial 136
Marshall, Burke 83, 88
Marshall, Thurgood 22–5, 27, 59, 71, 135
Massive Resistance 26, 122
Mathis, Johnny 121
May, Elaine 121
Mays, Benjamin 47
Meredith, James
and the Battle of Ole Miss 71– 6
March Against Fear 129–30
Merrill, Gary 120
Mexico City Olympics 131
MFDP (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party)
109–10, 110–11
middle-class blacks 136, 137
military segregation 19
Million Man March 135
miscegenation 10
Mississippi
Battle of Ole Miss 71–7
and the Freedom Ride 68–9
ratification of the 13th Amendment 134
voter registration 99–100
form 149–50
Freedom Summer 105–11, 152–3
Selma campaign 112–24
SNCC handbill on 152
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)
109 –10, 110 –11
Mississippi Plan 9
Mize, Judge Sidney 72
Molotov cocktails 68, 75
Mondale, Walter 110
Monk, Thelonius 19
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