New Deal programs 17
Newman, Paul 90, 121
Newton, Huey 131–2
Nixon, E.D. 43, 44, 45, 46, 50, 51
Nixon, Richard 53, 62, 134
nonviolent resistance 18, 47, 80, 84, 136
sit-ins 54 –62
see alsoSNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee)
northern states
ghettoes 127–9
migration of blacks from 136
migration of blacks to 16, 20
and slavery 3– 4, 5
Nott, Josiah 4
O’Boyle, Patrick 91
O’Dell, Jack 88
Odetta 90, 121
Operation Breadbasket 129
Parker, Charlie 19
Parks, Rosa 44 –6, 49, 55, 91, 121
Patterson, Floyd 121
Patterson, John 50, 66 –7, 78
Pattillo, Melba 33, 36, 38
Peck, James 65, 66
Perkins, Anthony 121
Peter, Paul and Mary 90, 121
Philadelphia Plan 134
Poitier, Sidney 61, 90, 121
poll taxes 10
Poor People’s Campaign 133– 4
poverty
anti-poverty programs 135
graph of poverty status by race 156
Johnson’s war on 95, 134
King on racism and 132–3
in northern ghettoes 127
Powell, Adam Clayton Jr. 17
Presley, Elvis 20
Prinz, Joachim 90
Pritchard, Laurie 79
Project Confrontation 80–4
racism
discrediting of 21
in northern states 126
and poverty 132–3
and slavery 1–5
southern writers attacking 19
and World War II 18
RAM (Revolutionary Action Movement) 131, 132
Randolph, A. Philip 16, 17, 18, 19, 87, 88, 89, 91, 120
Rauh, Joseph 94, 109, 110
Ray, Gloria 33, 37, 38
Ray, James Earl 133
Reagan, Ronald 129, 135
Reagon, Cordell 56, 79
Reconstruction 10
Reeb, James 119
Reese, Fred 116
Republican Party 52
Resurrection City 133– 4
Reuther, Walter 90, 92, 110, 120
Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) 131, 132
Richardson, Gloria 85, 91
Richmond, David 54
Roberts, Wayne 107
Robertson, Carole 92–3
Robeson, Paul 17
Robinson, Jackie 19, 20, 90
Robinson, Jimmy George 114
Robinson, Jo Ann 43– 4, 45, 49
Robinson, Johnny 93
Rockwell, George Lincoln 114
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 16 –17, 17–18, 95
Rowe, Gary Thomas 65– 6, 67
Rowe, Tommy 122
Russell, Nipsey 121
Russell, Richard 66
Rustin, Baynard 52, 57, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 111
on Black Power 132
St Augustine, Florida, King’s campaign in 94
Sambos 11
Savio, Mario 106
school desegregation
and the Browndecision 22–31
and busing 134, 137
and the Little Rock Nine 32– 40
and Wallace’s Standing in the Door vow 78
Schwerner, Michael ‘Mickey’ 107–8
Schwerner, Rita 108
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