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Valeriani, Richard 117

Vardaman, James 99

VEP (Voter Education Project) 70, 101–3, 124

Vietnam War 129, 132–3

Vinson, Fred 24

Vivian, C.T. 94

Vivian, Reverend C.T. 116 –17

Voice of America, and the March on Washington 91

Voter Education Project (VEP) 70, 101–3, 124

Voters League 113

voting 10, 20 –1, 136

black mayors 124, 136

and the Civil Rights Act (1957) 52–3

and the Democrat Party 62

disenfranchisement 21

and Kennedy 86

registration 99–111

Freedom Summer 105–9

Selma campaign 112–24

Voter Education Project 70, 101–3, 124

Voting Rights Act (1965) 122–3, 124, 134

and white intimidation 27– 8

see alsoMississippi

Voting Rights Act (1965) 122–3, 124, 134

Walker, Edwin 74, 105

Walker, Wyatt T. 81

Wallace, George 40, 78, 84 –5, 86, 110, 124, 134

and the Selma campaign 117, 119

and the Selma to Montgomery March 117–18,

119, 120, 121

Standing in the Door vow 78

Ware, Virgil 93

Waring, J. Waties 19

Warren, Earl 24

Washington

March on 87–92

Million Man March on 135

Resurrection City 133 – 4

Washington, Booker T. 15, 92

Watts, Carlotta 33, 38

Watts Riot (1965) 128

‘We Shall Overcome’ 59, 91, 143– 4

Welles, Gideon 5

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 15

Wesley, Cynthia 92–3

West, Ben 57–8

White, Ben Chester 130, 134

White, Josh 90

white primaries 24

white supremacy 11

see alsoKu Klux Klan

White, Walter 16

Wilder, Douglas 124

Wilkins, Roy 28 –9, 30, 63, 87–8, 120, 132

Williams, A.D. 46

Williams, Hosea 52, 117, 118

Williams, John Bell 76

Williams, Robert 131

Winters, Shelley 121

Wisdom, John Minor 72

Woodson, Carter G. 20

Woodward, C. Vann 120

Woodward, Joanne 90

Woolworths, sit-ins at 54 –5, 56, 61

World War II 17–18, 19, 21, 100

Wright, Marian 105

Wright, Moses ‘Preacher’ 29

Yorty, Sam 128

Young, Andrew 52, 94, 133

Young, Whitney 87, 120

Younge, Sammy Jr. 123

Zellner, Bob 102, 106, 111

Zinn, Howard 109

Zwerg, James 67

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