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• Abernathy, Ralph
• Abram, Morris; Wofford and
• ACLU
• Adams, Sherman
• AFL-CIO
• Allen, Ivan, Jr.
• American Jewish Congress
• American Legion
• AmeriCorps
• Anderson, Trezzvant
• Angola (Louisiana State Penitentiary)
• anti-Semitism
• AP (Associated Press)
• “Appeal for Human Rights, An”
• Ashmore, Ann
• Atlanta, Ga.; King’s return to; Nixon’s appearance in; Republicans in; voters in
• Atlanta Constitution, The
• Atlanta Daily World
• Atlanta Inquirer, The
• Atlanta Journal, The
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The
• Atlanta Life Insurance Company
• Atlanta Prison Farm
• Atlanta Student Movement
• Atlanta University

• Baker, Ella
• Baldwin, James; “My Dungeon Shook”
• Balkcom, R. P.
• Barnett, Claude
• Barry, Marion
• Bass, Jack
• Bassett, Jim
• Belafonte, Harry
• Bell, Griffin
• Bevel, James
• Big Rock Jail at Fulton Tower
• Biko, Steve
• Birmingham campaign
• Black, Charles
• Black Man in the White House (Morrow)
• Black media and journalists
• Black Republicans and the Transformation of the GOP (Farrington)
• Blackshear, Otis
• Black soldiers
• Black voters; Blue Bomb pamphlets and; Democratic Party and; Eisenhower and; election turnout of; in Georgia; JFK’s campaign and; Nixon’s campaign and; Republican Party and
• Blair, Ed
• Blue Bomb pamphlets
• Bond, Julian; Hollowell and; Lonnie King and
• Bondurant, Joan
• Booker, Simeon
• Bowles, Chester
• Brando, Marlon
• Brazier, James
• Brinkley, David
• Broome, C. J.
• Brown, Benjamin
• Brown v. Board of Education
• buffalo soldiers

• Calhoun, John; Hartsfield and
• Califano, Joseph
• Carter, Jimmy
• Case of Martin Luther King, The (Blue Bomb pamphlets)
• Castro, Fidel
• Cavanaugh, John
• Celler, Emanuel
• Chamberlain, Wilt
• Chapin, Dwight
• Charlton, Matthew
• Chicago, Ill.
• Chicago Daily Tribune
• Chicago Defender, The
• China
• Christian Science Monitor, The
• Church, Roberta
• Civil Rights Act of 1957
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Civil Rights Commission
• civil rights movement; Birmingham campaign; Democratic Party and; Eisenhower and; Freedom Rides; jail and; JFK’s campaign and; JFK’s presidency and; King’s Birmingham jail letter and; March on Washington; Montgomery bus boycott; National Conference on Constitutional Rights; Nixon’s 1960 campaign and; Nixon’s true feelings about; Selma to Montgomery march; SNCC and; “We Shall Overcome” in; women’s centrality to; women’s suffering of sexual violence during; see also segregation and integration; sit-ins
• Civil Rights Section (CRS); Blue Bomb pamphlets of; conservative elements and; Dawson in; King’s imprisonment and; Nixon telegram proposal and; Reeves-Lawson rivalry in; see also Martin, Louis E.; Shriver, Sargent; Wofford, Harris
• Clark, Kenneth
• Clayton, Charles
• Clayton, Xernona
• Clement, Rufus
• Committee on Appeal for Human Rights
• Congressional Record
• Congress of Racial Equality
• Connor, Bull
• Conquest of Violence (Bondurant)
• Corporation for National and Community Service
• Craig, Calvin
• Cross, Lonnie
• CRS, see Civil Rights Section
• Crusade for Citizenship
• Cuba
• Curry, Constance “Connie”

• Daley, Richard
• Dawson, William
• Decatur, Ga.
• DeKalb County, Ga.; King released from; King’s court hearings in; King’s sentence appealed in; King’s sentencing in; King’s traffic citation in; Republicans in; white voters in
• DeKalb County Jail
• Democratic National Committee (DNC)
• Democratic National Convention
• Democratic Party, Democrats; Black voters and; civil rights and; King’s imprisonment and; segregationist; southern
• Depression, Great
• desegregation, see segregation and integration
• DeWolf, L. Harold
• Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
• Dobbs, John Wesley
• Dorsey, Thomas
• Douglass, Frederick
• DREAM Act
• Du Bois, W. E. B.
• Duke University

• Ebenezer Baptist Church; King’s “Eight Days Behind Bars” sermon at; King’s funeral at
• Ebony
• Edelman, Marian Wright
• Edelman, Peter
• Ehrlichman, John
• Eisenhower, Dwight D.; Black voters and; civil rights and; JFK and; King’s imprisonment and; Morrow and; Nixon and; Nixon’s campaign and
• Eisenhower, Mamie
• Evers, Medgar

• Farrell, John
• Farrington, Joshua
• Farris, Christine King
• Farris, Isaac
• Fauntroy, Walter
• FBI
• Finch, Robert
• First Amendment
• Flanigan, Peter
• Forty Years a Guinea Pig (Morrow)
• Fourteenth Amendment
• Frank, Leo
• Franklin, Aretha
• Freedom Crusade Committee
• Freedom Rides
• Fulton County, Ga.: Big Rock Jail at Fulton Tower; Fulton County Jail; voters in

• Galbraith, John Kenneth
• Gallup
• Gandhi, Mahatma
• Georgia; Atlanta, see Atlanta, Ga.; Black voters in; criminal justice system in; Decatur; DeKalb County, see DeKalb County, Ga.; Fulton County, see Fulton County, Ga.; State Prison in Reidsville, see Reidsville, Georgia State Prison in
• Georgia Council on Human Relations
• Georgia State Board of Corrections
• Ghana
• Goldwater, Barry
• Goodwin, Richard
• Gordy, Barry
• Granger, Lester
• Graves, John Temple, II
• Gray, James
• Gray, William

• Haldeman, H. R.
• Harris, Louis
• Hartsfield, William; Calhoun and; desegregation negotiations of; King’s imprisonment and; King Sr. and
• Harvey’s Restaurant
• Hatcher, Andrew
• health care
• Hermann, A. B.
• Herter, Christian
• Hesburgh, Ted
• Heston, Charlton
• Hill, Jesse
• Hoffa, Jimmy
• Hollings, Fritz
• Hollowell, Donald; Bond and; Brazier and; Johnson and; King and students represented by; in King’s court hearings; and King’s imprisonment at Reidsville; King’s release and; King’s traffic citation and; Mitchell called by; Nash and; in World War II
• Hollowell, Louise
• Holmes, Hamilton
• Holt Street Baptist Church
• Hoover, J. Edgar
• Hopkins, Gerard Manley
• Hotel Theresa
• Howard University; JFK’s appearance at
• Hoytt, Marilyn Pryce
• Humphrey, Hubert
• Hunter, Charlayne

• India
• India Afire (Wofford and Wofford)
• integration, see segregation and integration

• Jackson, Jesse
• Jackson, J. H.
• Jackson, Mahalia
• Javits, Jacob
• Jefferson Memorial
• Jenkins, Herbert
• Jet
• Jewish Labor Committee
• Jews
• Jim Crow; see also segregation and integration
• Johnson, Ernest
• Johnson, Lyndon B.; and Civil Rights Act of 1964; King’s assassination and; Martin and; Shriver in administration of; War on Poverty
• Johnson, Nathaniel
• Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
• Jones, Clarence
• Jones, Raymond “Silver Fox”
• Jordan, Vernon
• Justice Department, U.S.

• Kansas City Times, The
• Kelley, John
• Kennedy, Caroline
• Kennedy, Ethel
• Kennedy, Jacqueline
• Kennedy, John F.; assassination of; back surgery of; Catholicism of; civil rights and presidency of; Coretta King called by; Eisenhower and; elected president; funeral for; illnesses of; inauguration of; Irish heritage of; King on; King’s Birmingham campaign and; King’s meetings with; March on Washington and; Nixon’s relationship with; presidency of; racism as viewed by; RFK’s character contrasted with; The Strategy of Peace; Vandiver called by; Wofford’s meeting of; in World War II
• Kennedy, John F., presidential campaign of; Black voters and; Blue Bomb pamphlets in; and Bowles’s call to Coretta King; civil rights and; debates with Nixon; Election Day; hectic schedule in; Howard University appearance; JFK’s call to Coretta King; JFK’s final televised statement in; King and; King’s father and; King’s imprisonment and; King’s lack of endorsement for; National Conference on Constitutional Rights and; Nixon telegram proposal and; Robinson and; Troutman and; Wofford recruited for; see also Civil Rights Section
• Kennedy, Joseph, Jr.
• Kennedy, Joseph; Shriver and
• Kennedy, Robert F.; assassination of; Blue Bomb pamphlets and; Coretta King visited by; JFK’s assassination and; and JFK’s call to Coretta King; JFK’s character contrasted with; King’s assassination and; at King’s funeral; King’s traffic citation sentence and; Martin and; Mitchell called by; presidential campaign of; Rachel Robinson and; on racial inequality; Stewart and; Vandiver and; Wofford and
• Kennedy, Rose
• Kennedy, Ted
• Kennedy Library
• Kenya
• Khrushchev, Nikita
• Killers of the Dream (Smith)
• King, A. D.
• King, Alberta Williams
• King, Alice
• King, Bernice
• King, Christine
• King, Coretta Scott; Blue Bomb pamphlets and; Bowles’s call to; early life of; JFK’s call to; Martin’s assassination and; Martin’s court hearing and; and Martin’s imprisonment in Birmingham jail; and Martin’s imprisonment following Rich’s sit-in arrest; Martin’s letter to; Martin’s marriage to; Martin’s release and; Martin’s sentencing and; Nixon’s visit to; and release of Rich’s sit-in protestors; RFK’s visit to
• King, Lonnie; Bond and; death of; early life of; imprisonment of; Jordan and; and King’s assassination and funeral; King’s release and; in Navy; off-duty police incident and; post office job of; in Rich’s sit-in
• King, Martin Luther, III (“Marty”)
• King, Martin Luther, Jr.; arrest and incarceration in Montgomery; assassination of; Atlanta return of; Birmingham campaign of; in Birmingham jail; and Civil Rights Act of 1964; Coretta’s marriage to; funerals for; grandmother of; humility and guilt of; “I Have a Dream” speech of; Jackson and; on jail; on JFK; JFK’s campaign and; JFK’s meetings with; leadership, fame, and prestige of; Lee as body man for; in Montgomery bus boycott; name change of; on Nixon; Nixon’s campaign and; Nixon’s relationship with; Nobel Peace Prize awarded to; political neutrality of; radio interview of; in Rich’s sit-in; as SCLC head; sit-in movement and; SNCC and; stabbing attack on; Stride Toward Freedom; tax indictment of; voting problem of; wiretapping of; Wofford’s relationship with
• King, Martin Luther, Jr., imprisonment of: arrest; bail refusal and; bond payment and; The Case of Martin Luther King (Blue Bomb pamphlets); Coretta and; court hearings and; in DeKalb County Jail; and dropping of charges; Eisenhower and; in Fulton County Jail; Hartsfield and; homecoming from; JFK’s call to Coretta on; JFK’s call to Vandiver on; JFK’s campaign and; King’s fasting during; King’s letter to Coretta during; King’s sermon on; King’s television interview during; King’s written statements during; “leave the premises” trespassing charge in; media condemnation of; Mitchell’s decision reversal and; Nixon’s campaign and; plot against King’s life in; prisoners’ notes to King in; Reeves and; in Reidsville; release from prison; and release of fellow protestors; RFK’s call to Mitchell on; sentencing in; in solitary confinement; telegrams sent to JFK and Nixon about; traffic citation and; traffic sentence appealed; Vandiver and; visits during; Wofford and
• King, Martin Luther, Sr. (“Daddy King”); Blue Bomb pamphlets and; Coretta and; early life of; Hartsfield and; and JFK’s call to Coretta; and JFK’s Catholicism; Martin’s assassination and; Martin’s court hearings and; Martin’s imprisonment and; Martin’s imprisonment at Reidsville and; Martin’s sentencing and; Martin’s traffic citation and; name change of; Nixon’s visit to; Rich’s sit-in and
• King, Yolanda “Yoki”
• Klein, Herb
• Kuhn, Clifford
• Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

• labor camps, see prison farms and labor camps
• labor unions
• Lawson, Belford
• Lawson, James
• Lawson, Marjorie; Reeves’ rivalry with
• Lee, Bernard; as King’s body man
• Lee, George W.
• Levison, Stanley
• Lewis, Anthony
• Lewis, John
• Life
• Lincoln, Abraham
• Little, R. E.
• Little Rock, Ark.
• Lodge, Henry Cabot; pledge on Black cabinet member made by
• Long, Carolyn
• Los Angeles Sentinel
• Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola)
• lynchings

• Mackay, James
• Making of the President, 1960, The (White)
• March on Washington
• Marshall, Burke
• Marshall, Thurgood
• Martin, F. M.
• Martin, Gertrude
• Martin, Louis E.; Black elected officials mentored by; Black voter outreach by; Blue Bomb pamphlets and; Carter and; Conference on Constitutional Rights and; Dawson and; death of; FDR and; JFK’s assassination and; and JFK’s call to Coretta King; Johnson and; King’s assassination and; at King’s funeral; King’s imprisonment and; on King’s Reidsville experience; King’s sentencing and; and Lodge’s pledge of Black cabinet member; Nixon telegram proposal of; racism confronted by; RFK and; and RFK’s call to Mitchell; Shriver and; at University of Michigan; Wofford and; see also Civil Rights Section
• Martin, Toni
• Martin Luther King Day
• Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
• Mays, Benjamin
• Meany, George
• McCarthy, Eugene
• McDonald, Dora
• McGill, Ralph
• McGovern, George
• media; Black; King’s imprisonment condemned in
• Metropolitan AME Church
• Miami, Fla.
• Michigan Chronicle
• Ministers’ Alliance
• Mitchell, Clarence
• Mitchell, John
• Mitchell, Oscar; decision reversal and release of King by; Hollowell’s call to; in King’s hearings; RFK’s call to; Stewart and
• Montgomery bus boycott
• Moore, Howard
• Morehouse College
• Morrow, Catherine
• Morrow, E. Frederic; Black Man in the White House; Eisenhower and; Finch and; Forty Years a Guinea Pig; King and; Nixon and; Nixon’s presidential campaign and; Robinson and; White House staff appointment of
• Moss, Otis, Jr.
• Mount Moriah Baptist Church
• Mount Zion Second Baptist Church
• Mussolini, Benito
• “My Dungeon Shook” (Baldwin)

• NAACP; King’s sentencing and
• Nash, Diane
• Nash, Willie
• Nation, The
• National Conference on Constitutional Rights
• National Guard
• National Newspaper Publishers Association
• National Urban League
• Neely, Frank
• New Deal
• New Republic
• New York Amsterdam News
• New York, N.Y.; Harlem; National Conference on Constitutional Rights in
• New York Post
• New York Times, The
• Nigeria
• 1984 (Orwell)
• Niven, David
• Nix, Robert
• Nixon, Pat
• Nixon, Richard; civil rights movement as viewed by; Coretta King visited by; early life of; Eisenhower and; Finch and; at JFK’s funeral; JFK’s relationship with; JFK’s surgery and; King on; King’s funeral and; King’s relationship with; Martin’s telegram proposal and; Mexico trip of; Morrow and; 1968 presidential campaign of; 1972 presidential campaign of; presidency of; segregation condemned by; Six Crises; southern strategy of; Watergate and
• Nixon, Richard, 1960 presidential campaign of; Atlanta appearance; Black journalists and; Black voters and; civil rights and; debates with JFK; Eisenhower and; Election Day; Finch and; Harlem and; Howard University forum and; King and; King’s father and; King’s imprisonment and; and Lodge’s pledge of Black cabinet member; Morrow and; Nixon’s closing appeal in; Quinn Chapel invitation and; Republican National Committee and; Robinson and
• Nixon Library
• Northwestern University

• Obama, Barack
• O’Brien, Lawrence
• O’Donnell, Ken
• Orbert, Agnes “Blondean”
• Orwell, George

• Parchman Farm
• Parks, Rosa
• Paschal’s Restaurant
• Patterson, John
• Peace Corps
• Person, Charles
• Pittsburgh Courier, The
• Politics of Injustice, The (Niven)
• Poor People’s Campaign
• Pope, Roslyn
• Powell, Adam Clayton
• presidential election of 1960; as close contest; Election Day; Electoral College count in; JFK’s victory in; King’s neutrality on; polling on; voter turnout for; see also Kennedy, John F., presidential campaign of; Nixon, Richard, 1960 presidential campaign of
• presidential election of 1968
• presidential election of 1972
• presidential election of 1976
• prison farms and labor camps; Atlanta Prison Farm; King sentenced to
• Proctor, Sam
• Pryce, Marilyn

• Ramsay, Richard
• Randolph, A. Philip
• Reeves, Frank; King’s imprisonment and; Lawson’s rivalry with
• Reidsville, Georgia State Prison in; guards at; King at; King’s release from; plot against King’s life in; prisoners’ notes to King in
• Republican National Committee (RNC)
• Republican Party, Republicans; in Atlanta; Blacks and; in DeKalb County; South and
• Rich, Dick; charges against King dropped by
• Rich’s department store; Crystal Bridge; Magnolia Room; Sam Nunn Federal Center at site of
• Rich’s department store sit-in; arrests of protestors; imprisonment of protestors; King in; King’s arrest in; King’s court hearing and; King’s imprisonment following, see King, Martin Luther, Jr., imprisonment of; “leave the premises” trespassing charges in; Lonnie King in; planning of; release of protestors
• Rickey, Branch
• Robeson, Paul
• Robinson, Jackie
• Robinson, Rachel
• Rockefeller, Nelson
• Rogers, Jewel
• Rogers, William
• Roosevelt, Eleanor
• Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Martin and; New Deal of
• Rush Church
• Russell, Bob
• Russell, Richard
• Ruwe, Nick

• Safire, William
• Salinger, Pierre
• Sam Nunn Federal Center
• Saturday Review
• Schlesinger, Arthur M.
• Schley, Bobby
• segregation and integration; Brown v. Board of Education; Democrats and; Hartsfield’s negotiations on; JFK’s administration and; Jim Crow; in Little Rock; of lunch counters; Nixon on; Nixon telegram proposal and; States’ Rights Council of Georgia and; Vandiver and; in workplace break rooms; see also civil rights movement; sit-ins
• Seigenthaler, John
• Selassie, Haile
• Selma to Montgomery march
• Semple, Cecil
• Sengstacke, John
• Shriver, Eunice Kennedy
• Shriver, Maria
• Shriver, Robert
• Shriver, Sargent; Blue Bomb pamphlets and; Catholic faith of; Conference on Constitutional Rights and; JFK’s assassination and; and JFK’s call to Coretta King; in Johnson administration; Joseph Kennedy Sr. and; at King’s funeral; Martin and; Peace Corps and; presidential campaign of; RFK’s assassination and; Special Olympics and; Wofford and; in World War II; see also Civil Rights Section
• Siegel, Jacob
• sit-ins; Atlanta newspapers on; Hartsfield’s negotiations on; Nixon on; at post office break room; at Rich’s department store, see Rich’s department store sit-in; at Terminal Station restaurant; trespassing law and; voter registration
• Six Crises (Nixon)
• Smith, Jack
• Smith, Lillian; King’s driving of
• Sorensen, Ted
• South; Democrats in; Nixon’s strategy for; political realignment in; Republicans and
• Southern California–Nevada Council of Churches
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
• Southern Regional Council
• Soviet Union
• Special Olympics
• Spelman College
• States’ Rights Council of Georgia
• Stevenson, Adlai
• Stewart, George; Mitchell and; RFK and
• Stossel, Scott
• Strange Fruit (Smith)
• Strategy of Peace, The (Kennedy)
• Stride Toward Freedom (King)
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
• Sullivan, Herschelle
• Supreme Court; Brown v. Board of Education

• Talmadge, Herman
• Taylor, Gardner
• Temple University
• Tenth Cavalry
• Terminal Station restaurant
• Till, Emmett
• Time
• Thoreau, Henry David
• Thurman, Howard
• Thurmond, Strom
• Today
• Trevor Arnett Library
• Troutman, Bobby; Wofford and
• Truman, Harry
• Tubby, Roger
• Tuck, Bennett

• unions
• United Nations
• United Press International
• University of Georgia
• University of Michigan
• U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

• Vandiver, Betty
• Vandiver, Ernest; JFK’s call to; King’s imprisonment and; RFK and; Stewart and
• Vietnam War
• Viva Zapata
• voting rights and registration

• Wagner, Robert F., Jr.
• Walden, A. T.
• Walker, Wyatt Tee
• Wallace, George
• Walsh, Lawrence
• Ward, Horace
• Wardlaw, John
• Washington, Val
• Washington Post, The
• Watergate
• Watters, Pat
• Webb, James
• “We Shall Overcome”
• Wheat Street Baptist Church
• White, Byron
• White, Theodore
• Whittier College
• Wilkins, J. Ernest
• Wilkins, Roy
• Williams, Franklin
• Williams, Samuel W.
• Wilson, Norma June
• Wilson, Woodrow
• Wittenstein, Charles
• Wofford, Clare
• Wofford, Daniel
• Wofford, Harris; Abram and; and appeal of King’s sentence; Blue Bomb pamphlets and; Conference on Constitutional Rights and; Dawson and; death of; Gandhi admired by; health care and; JFK’s assassination and; and JFK’s call to Coretta King; JFK’s meeting of; JFK’s meetings with King arranged by; King’s assassination and; at King’s funeral; King’s imprisonment and; King’s relationship with; King’s sentencing and; and Lodge’s pledge of Black cabinet member; Martin and; Obama and; Peace Corps and; recruited for JFK’s campaign; remarriage of; RFK and; and RFK’s call to Mitchell; Senate campaign of; Shriver and; Troutman and; Viva Zapata watched by; see also Civil Rights Section
• Wofford, Susanne
• Wonder, Stevie
• work camps, see prison farms and labor camps
• World War II; black soldiers in; Hollowell in; JFK in; Shriver in
• Wright, Jeremiah

• Young, Andrew
• Young, A. S. “Doc”
• Young, Whitney

• Zinn, Howard