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abolition movement, 20–21, 34, 115
abortion, 108
Adams, Stella, 51
affirmative action, 118–19
ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council), xiv, 78, 97, 114
Alinsky, Saul, 81
Allen, Yara, 94–95, 103
Alperovitz, Gar, 85–86
“Amendment One,” 90–92
America Beyond Capitalism (Alperovitz), 85–86
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), xiv, 78, 97, 114
Amos (prophet), 45, 46
ankylosing spondylitis, 31–32
Ashley, Samuel Stanford, 52, 62, 94, 115
Ashton, Laurel, 112
assimilationist posture, 8–9
attention violence, 46
Atwater, Lee, 120
Baker, Ella, 10, 44, 72, 94
Barber, Rebecca (wife), 10, 41, 47
Barber, William J. (father), 1–2, 4–5, 7–9, 10
Barber, William J., II: arrested, 80–81; and death of MLK, 6; education of, 9; and failed unionization effort in Martinsville, 16–24; father, 1–2, 4–5, 7–9, 10; and first People’s Assembly, 50–53; Grandmamma of, 3–4, 9–10; health of, 31–33, 41–42; and HKonJ movement, 49–54; on moral dissent, 20–24; mother, 6; and North Carolina NAACP, 44–49; as pastor of Fayette Street Christian Church, 15–28; as pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church, 35–37; and Rebuilding Broken Places, 36–39; and Sensible Concerns About Toxins (SCAT), 27–28; vocational calling of, 10–13; working with whites, 25–26. See also Forward Together Moral Movement
Beloved Community Center, 87
Berger, Phil, 97
Birmingham, Alabama, 100
Black Lives Matter movement, 121
black power, 58
Bloody Sunday (Selma, 1964), xi
Bond, Julian, x
Bordewich, Fergus, 115
Boston University, 9–10
Bound for Canaan (Bordewich), 115
Braden, Anne, 134
Brennan, William, 58–59
Brown, John, 26
Brown v. Board of Education, 22, 76, 118
capital punishment, 74
Chaney, James Earl, 120
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 4, 7
Christian realism, 19–20, 23, 25
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 62–63, 83
civil disobedience, 77
“Civil Disobedience” (Thoreau), 21
Civil Rights Act of 1964, xi, 57, 119
civil rights movement: and Brown v. Board of Education, 22, 76, 118; counterattack by conservative extremists, 119–21; and Edmund Pettus Bridge, 119; and Emmett Till’s lynching, 118; and fusion coalitions, 57–58, 117–19; March on Washington (1963), x, xi, xii; Montgomery bus boycott, 67, 128; and scripture, 12; voting rights as most important element, 58. See also King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Civil War, 1
coalitions. See fusion coalitions
Coffin, Levi, 115, 134
Coleman, Carolyn, 30
Colm, Janet, 108
community development, 38–39
Connor, Bull, 99, 100
convict leasing, 73
criminal justice system, 46, 71–75, 125
Daniels, Jonathan, 119
dark money investments, 68, 75, 76, 83–85, 92, 114
death penalty, 74, 125
deconstruction policies, 119–20
desegregation, 53–54
Dewey, John, 105
disenfranchisement. See voting rights and access, African American
Douglass, Frederick, 10, 26, 34, 65, 123
Dred Scott decision, 123
Du Bois, W. E. B., 44
Duke Divinity School, 15, 37
Edmund Pettus Bridge, 119
education, public, 76–77, 79, 81, 83, 116, 117, 124
elections: 2008, 61–62, 121; 2010, 62–64, 75–76; 2012, 89–90, 92
Elizabeth City State University (North Carolina), 5
Emancipation Day, 16
End Rape Culture movement, 122
Epp, Brian, 71
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 119
Evers, Medgar, 10, 119
Ezekiel (prophet), 49, 61
Fayette Street Christian Church, 15–28
fear, of black people, 89–90
Forward Together Moral Movement: about, xii, xiii, 114; first People’s Assembly, 50–53; growth of coalition, 93–94, 124; and John McNeil case, 71–75; and marriage equality, 90–92; Moral Mondays, x, 101–9, 111–13, 122; origins of, 49–54; “Putting a Face on Poverty” tour, 86–89; and Racial Justice Act, 74–75, 98; and Smithfield hog-processing plant, 69–70; success on issues, 123–24; Take the Dream Home rallies, xii, 109; and 2010 elections, 62–64, 75–76; and 2011 state budget, 78–80; and 2012 elections, 89–90, 92; and voter-suppression bills, 98–99, 101; and voting rights legislation, 58–60; and Wake County school board, 76–78
Free Union, North Carolina, 1
fusion coalition(s): abolition movement as, 34; about, 28; and community development, 38, 41; impact on elites and kingmakers, 62–63; Jesus’s ministry as, 99; and MLK, 48, 58; NAACP as, 44, 47; in North Carolina history 7, 52–53, 55–57, 62, 92–93; organizing and sustaining, 114–15; resistance to, 62–63, 116–19; in Second Reconstruction, 119; tenets for organizing and sustaining, 127–30, 135; voices of individuals in, 88
Fusion Party, 7, 52–53, 56–57, 62
Gandhi, Mohandas K., 67
Garrison, William Lloyd, 20–21, 26
gerrymandering, 83, 84
“Give Us the Ballot” (King), 58
Goldsboro, North Carolina, 30, 33, 36, 46
Goodman, Andrew, 120
Goolsby, Tom, 103
Graham, Franklin, 90
Great Recession (2008), 70–71
Greenleaf Christian Church, 30–31, 33–34, 35–39
Greensboro Urban Ministries, 87–88
Grimke, Angelina and Sarah, 26, 134
Hall, Jarvis, 50
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot movement, 121
Harlan, John Marshall, 22
Harris, Andrea, 29
Harris-Perry, Melissa, x
Hauerwas, Stanley, 37–38
Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 35
Hickory, North Carolina, 88
Highlander Folk School, 57, 103, 118
Hilton, Gloria, 27–28
historically black colleges, 9
HKonJ People’s Assembly Coalition: and 2010 elections, 62–64, 75–76; and 2011 state budget, 78–80; and 2012 elections, 89–90, 92; first People’s Assembly, 50–53; growth of coalition, 93–94, 124; and John McNeil case, 71–75; and marriage equality, 90–92; Moral Mondays, x, 101–9, 111–13, 122; origins of, 49–54; “Putting a Face on Poverty” tour, 86–89; and Racial Justice Act, 74–75, 98; and Smithfield hog-processing plant, 69–70; successes of, 123–24; Take the Dream Home rallies, xii, 109; and voter-suppression bills, 98–99, 101; and voting rights legislation, 58–60; and Wake County school board, 76–78
Hofeller, Tom, 84
Hood, J. W., 52, 55–56, 62, 94, 115
Horne, Chevis, 26
Hughes, Langston, 122
Human Relations Commission, 30
I Can’t Breathe movement, 121
income inequality, xiii
interracial coalitions, 116–17
Isaiah (prophet), 33–34, 42–43, 65, 134
Jackson, Jimmy Lee, 119
Jesus, 64–65
Jim Crow segregation laws, xii, xiv, 1–2, 35, 44, 116–17
Johnson, Lyndon B., 119
Johnson, Nelson, 69
Johnston, Joseph E., 1
Jordan, Clarence, 118
Kennedy, John F., 118, 119
Kennedy, Robert F., 119
King, Martin Luther, Jr., x, xi, 6, 9, 12, 35, 57, 58, 67, 70, 99–100, 119
KKK (Ku Klux Klan), 34, 53, 62, 72, 112, 132, 135
Koch, Charles and David, 76–77, 78, 119–20
Koch, Freddy, 76
Levison, Stanley, 134–35
LGBTQ community, 90–91, 122
Lincoln, Abraham, 21
Liuzzo, Viola, 35, 119
Luddy, Robert, 77
Malcolm X, 119
Mandela, Nelson, 16
Manning, Howard, 81
March on Washington (1963), x, xi
marriage equality, 90–92
Martin, William C., 90
Martinsville textile factory unionization, 15–28
McCollum, Henry, 89
McCrory, Pat, 97
McNeil, John, 71–75
McSurely, Al, 47–48, 51, 138
media, xii, 27, 64, 68, 69, 103–4, 107, 114, 129–30, 132
Medicaid, 97, 123, 124
minimum wage movement, 122, 123
miscegenation, 2
Mitchell County, North Carolina, 111–13
Moltmann, Jürgen, 4
Montgomery bus boycott, 67, 128
moral dissent, necessity of, 20–24, 39
Moral Mondays, x, 101–9, 111–13, 122
Moses, 34
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (NC Chapter), 2; Barber elected president of, 44–48; coalitions unite, 48–54. See also Forward Together Moral Movement
National Organization for Marriage, 90
Nichol, Gene, 86
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 19–20, 23, 25, 37
nonviolence, 128
North Carolina: constitution of, 115–16; Mitchell County, 111–13; state government of, xiv
North Carolina Central University, 9
North Carolina General Assembly: 2010 elections, 63, 75–76; 2011 state budget, 78–80; 2012 election, 89–90, 92; 2013 legislative session, 98–99; African Americans elected to, 56; dark money investment, 83–85, 92; gerrymandering of voting districts, 84–85
North Carolina Institute for Minority Economic Development, 29–30
Not One More movement, 122
Obama, Barack, 61, 121
Parks, Rosa, 35, 57, 118
Patterson, John, 53
Paul (apostle), 34
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, 74
People Over Money movement, 122
People’s Assembly, first, 50–53
Petty, Nancy, 78, 101
Phillips, Kevin, 64, 119
Planned Parenthood, 108
Plessy v. Ferguson, 22, 34, 117
Plymouth, North Carolina, 1
Polk, James K., 21
Pope, Art, 63–64, 68, 77, 78, 84–85, 97
poverty, xiii, 17, 42, 43, 46, 59–60, 86–89
Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, 58
presidential election of 2008, 61–62
prison industrial complex, 46, 71–75, 125
Pritchett, Laurie, 99–100
Prophesy Deliverance! (West), 8
Psalm 94, 20, 22–23
Purdue, Bev, 78
“Putting a Face on Poverty” tour, 86–89
Racial Justice Act, 74–75, 98
Raise Up movement, 122
Rebuilding Broken Places, 36–39, 43
Reconstruction, 56, 115–16. See also Second Reconstruction; Third Reconstruction
Redemption movement, 116–17
redistricting, 83, 84
Repairers of the Breach, 127
Restorationist Movement, 7
Roper, North Carolina, 2–3
Rustin, Bayard, 35
same-sex marriage, 90–92
Second Reconstruction, 57, 117–19, 121. See also civil rights movement
Selma, Alabama, 119
Sensible Concerns About Toxins (SCAT), 27–28
Shelby County v. Holder, 125
Sherman, William T., 1
slavery, 12, 34, 73, 123, 128
Smiley, Glen, 35
Smithfield hog-processing plant (Tar Heel, NC), 69–70
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), 72, 118, 119
social media, 129–30
“Souls to the Polls” campaign, 60
South, the, xiv–xv, 1–2, 7, 17, 23, 35, 44, 53, 54, 56–57, 64, 71–73, 75, 76, 86, 89, 100, 108, 116–17, 119, 121, 122, 125, 127, 131
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 48, 99, 119
Southern freedom movement, xi–xii, 34, 68, 100
Southern Strategy, 53–54, 63, 68, 73, 78, 108, 119–20
Spearman, T. Anthony, 80–81, 101
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 34
State Government Leadership Foundation (SGLF), 84
states’ rights, 120
Stringfellow, William, 134
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 72, 94, 118, 119
Take the Dream Home rallies, xii, 109
Taylor, Gardner C., 26
Tea Party, 114
Tedesco, John, 79
Third Reconstruction, xii–xvi, 121, 125, 127–30, 134–35
Thoreau, Henry David, 21
Thornburg v. Gingles, 58–59
Thurmond, Strom, 131
Till, Emmett, 118
Tillis, Thom, xiv, 63–64, 78, 80, 97, 124
Truth, Sojourner, 26, 34
Tubman, Harriet, 10, 26, 34, 94
Turner, William C., 15, 38
Tyson, Timothy, 58, 78, 101, 111–12
Tyson, Vernon, 112
Underground Railroad, 115
union, Martinsville textile factory, 16–24
voter registration and education, 130
voter-suppression bills, xiv, 98–99, 101, 125
Voting Rights Act of 1965, xi, 57, 59, 98, 119
voting rights and access, African American, 56, 58–60, 108, 116–17, 125
Wake County school board, 76–78
Wallace, George, 53–54, 97
War on Drugs, 73
Warren, Earl, 76
wealth divide, xiii
West, Cornel, 4, 8
Wilkins, E. V., 2, 5, 30
Williams, Mary, 78
Wilmington, North Carolina, 7–8
Wilson, North Carolina, 71–72
women’s rights, 34, 108, 122, 123
Zellner, Bob, 72, 94, 101