INDEX
Beckwith, Byron de la 105
Belafonte, Harry 61, 81, 84, 90, 121
Bennett, Tony 121
Bergman, Walter 65
Bernstein, Leonard 121
Berry, Chuck 20
Bevel, James 52, 60, 82
Bilbo, Theodore 99
Birmingham, Alabama
bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church 92–3,
113, 134
and the Freedom Ride 65–7
Project Confrontation 80– 4
The Birth of a Nation 11
Black Arts movement 131
Black Codes 10
black consciousness 20
Black, Hugo 72
Black Muslims 80, 115–16
black nationalism 16, 80
Black Panthers 124, 131–2
founding document 155 –6
Black Power 130 –2
black voting seevoting
Blair, Ezell Jr. 54
Blake, Eugene Carson 90
Blake, James 44, 45
Blake, Reverend 91
Block, Sam 103
Bloody Sunday 117–18
Blossom, Virgil 32, 37, 39
Blough, Roger 83
Bond, Julian 58, 60, 61Abernathy, Ralph 44, 48, 51, 68, 121, 133
affirmative action 17, 135
African enslavement 1–2
Afrocentricity 131
Ahmann, Mathew 90
Alabama
Christian Movement for Human Rights 81
University admissions 84 –5
see alsoBirmingham; Montgomery
Albany Movement 78 –80
Alexander, Will 18
American colonies and slavery 2–3
American Revolution 3– 4, 120
Americans for Democratic Action 21
Anderson, Marian 17, 91
Anderson, William 78, 79
Arab slave traders 1–2
Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of
Lynching 18 –19
Atlanta Compromise 92Baez, Joan 90
Baker, Ella 52, 55, 60, 109
Baker, Wilson 114, 116, 123
Baldwin, James 84, 92, 121
Baraka, Amiri 131
Barbee, William 68
Barnett, Ross 72, 73–5, 84, 99, 105
Barry, Marion 124
baseball, breaking of color bar in 19, 20
Bates, Daisy 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 91
Bates, L.C. 34, 40
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