Kerner Commission 128–9
Khrushchev, Nikita 68
Killen, Edgar Ray 107– 8
King, A.D. 81
King, Alan 121
King, Coretta Scott 47, 48, 62, 115
King, Ed 100, 105
King, Lonnie 58
King, Martin Luther Jr. 20, 54, 57, 77, 86, 110,
132– 4, 137
and the Albany Movement 79–80
and the Battle of Ole Miss 73
and Black Power 130
and Bob Moses 101–2
campaign in St Augustine, Florida 94
and the Chicago Freedom Movement 129
‘I Have a Dream’ speech 147– 8
‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ 82, 144 –6
and the March Against Fear 129–30
and the March on Washington 87, 88, 89, 92
and the MFDP 111
and the Montgomery bus boycott 46–8, 50, 51
murder of 133, 134
and the Nobel Peace Prize 95
and the Poor People’s Campaign 133– 4
and Project Confrontation 80– 4
and the SCLC 52
and the Selma campaign 113, 114, 115, 117
and the Selma to Montgomery March 118 –19,
121–2
and sit-ins 61–2
and the SNCC 124
and the Voters League 113
and Wallace 78
and the Watts riot 128
King, Slater 78
Koch, Ed 106
Ku Klux Klan 9, 20
and Alabama University 85
and Black Power 130
and the Browndecision 27
and the Freedom Ride 64, 65– 6, 67– 8
and the Little Rock Nine 34
and Mississippi voter registration 102, 105, 106–8
and the Montgomery bus boycott 50
murder of Vernon Dahmer 123– 4
and Project Confrontation 80–1, 83– 4
in St Augustine 94and the Selma to Montgomery March 122
and the Southern Poverty Law Center 134
Kubrick, Stanley 118
Kwanzaa, festival of 131Ladner, Dorie 109
LaFayette, Bernard and Colia 112–13
Lancaster, Burt 90
Lawson, James 56, 58, 60, 133
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights 19
Lee, Cager 117, 120, 123
Lee, George 28
Lee, Herbert 102
leftist organizations, and sit-ins 60
Letherer, Jim 120
‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ 82, 144 – 6
Levison, Stanley 88
Lewis, John 56, 57, 61, 64, 67, 87, 89, 91, 123, 124
and the Selma to Montgomery March 117, 118,
120, 121
Lewis, Rufus 43
Lieberman, Joseph 105
Lincoln, Abraham 5, 77, 92
Emancipation Proclamation 25, 123
Lingo, Albert 84, 117, 119
Lipman, Ira 36
literacy tests 10, 99, 104
Little Richard 20
Little Rock Nine 32– 40, 54
Liuzzo, Viola 122
Looby, Z. Alexander 57
Lorch, Grace 35
Los Angeles, Watts Riot (1965) 128
Lost-Found Nation of Islam 80, 115
Louis, Joe 17
Lowenstein, Allard 105
Lowery, Rev. Joseph 51
Lowndes County Freedom Organization 124
Lucy, Autherine 29
lynchings 9–10, 11, 15, 100
Association of Southern Women for the Prevention
of Lynching 18 –19
Emmett Till 28–9
and the Freedom Ride 65
Lynd, Staunton 109McCain, Franklin 54 –5, 61
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