Note: Pages cited refer to the printed edition, not to the ebook.
Alabama 96–131
Birmingham bombing 189
Mobile 85, 95–103
Montgomery 107, 118, 121–27
Selma 119–20, 189
Alinski, Saul (see Civil Rights Movement leaders)
American Dream 144
Atlanta, Georgia 131–32, 134, 139, 142
Atlanta Journal-Constitution 141, 189
Atlanta Negro Voters League 144
Baldwin, James 224
Black history 204 (see also Negro)
Black Power 226–28, and
Black Liberation Movement 227
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America 226, 237
Carmichael, Stokely (Kwame Turé) and Charles V. Hamilton (authors) 226–27, 237
Griffin as ally-observer 196
Bonazzi, Robert 213–238
(Man in the Mirror) 149, 156
Boyle, Sarah Patton 182, 185
Carmichael, Stokely (see Black Power)
Carver, George Washington 127
Catholic church 20–21, 31–33, 51, 220–22
(on race) 56, 58–59, 225 and
Griffin’s protection of 163, 225
Griffin’s The Church and the Black Man 226, 237
Jesuits 82
Jude, St. 38
Merton, Thomas 225, 237
New Orleans 33
Murphy, Father J. Stanley 225
Thompson, Father August 225
Trappists 135–38
censorship of books 229–30
charity
St. Augustine on 96
Mohandas Gandhi on 226
Chicago 204, 225, children (and racism) 13, 14, 79, 82, 93–96, 110, 112–15, 173–74, (Bonazzi, 216, 229)
citizenship (denied Blacks) 122
second class 46
civil disobedience 226–228
Civil Rights Bill (of 1964) 189, 226
Civil Rights Movement leaders (see also Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Alinski, Saul 205
Cleage, Albert (Black theologian) 207–08, 225, 227
Davis, A.L. Reverend 33
Farmer, James 194, 205
Gregory, Dick 185–86, 191, 194–195
Groppi, Father James 205
Wilkins, Roy 194, 205
Young, Whitney 185, 194
Coates, Paul 160–61
Creole 7, 20
cultural stereotypes 215, 217, 231, 234
Davis, A.L. Reverend 33
debt (in the South) 109, 204
desegregation, bus 23, 54 (see also segregation)
despair 197
dignity 24, 121
(and food) 28–29, 111, 152
discrimination (also see prejudice) and
“alienating souls” 225
buses 51–53, 131–34 (see also desegregation)
cabs 65
check-cashing 50–51
food 7, 28–31, 86, 107–08, (“white meal”) 124
housing 20, 191–92
individualism 47
internalized 43
job 39, 41–42, 101, 190
military men and lack of 54 (soldiers’ responsibilities 122)
parks 44–45
press 190
restaurants 43–44, 46–47, 86, 100, 107–08, 124,
restrooms 20–21, 24, 46–47, 61–63, 86–87 (as sanctuary from, 133)
The South 125 (and The North) 162, 224–25
taxes, 76, 122, and beach privileges denied 84, 190
voting 80–81
water 26, 31
distance (between races) 124–25, 174–75
Dryades St. (see Louisianna, New Orleans)
East, P. D. (see press) economic injustice 41–42, 190
effigy 154, 167–68, 223
Eighth Generation, The 115
Ellison, Ralph (Invisible Man) 213, (censorship of, 229), 237
ethnicity 57–58
fairness and
Mayor Morrison 17
Mayor Hartsfield 144
Farmer, James (see Civil Rights Movement leaders)
FBI 6, 48, 63
fear 12–13, 37, 66, 73, 121–24, 186–87, 213, 225 and
courage to die in civil rights struggle 185–86
Griffin’s own 215
“knee-knocking courage” 186
“self-power” 105
white fear of “intermingling” 122
rumor-mongering 197–99
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (see press)
For Men of Good Will (Robert Guste, New Orleans priest) 82, 137
Gandhi, Mohandas 121, 213, 226, 237
Garroway, Dave (see press)
Geismar, Maxwell 74
Georgia 133
Atlanta 131–32, 134, 139, 142
Griffin, Governor of 133
Global Village 234
Golden, Harry (see press)
Gregory, Dick (see Civil Rights Movement leaders)
Griffin, Elizabeth Holland (wife) v, 5, 69, 120, 148, 221–22, 238
Griffin, John Howard and
Army Air Force 219–20
“Beyond Otherness” 233, 234
blindness 6–7 (Handbook forDarkness) 221–22, 226 (Scattered Shadows) 221, 236
childhood and youth experience 217–218 (with Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit) 111
The Church and the Black Man 226, 229
Griffin, John Howard (continued)
The Devil Rides Outside 236 (and Supreme court case 221)
Encounters With the Other 236
France 217–219
Humanitarian awards 235
“The Intrinsic Other” 236
lectures 216
Negro Griffin 127
Nuni 221, 236
“Racist Sins of Christians” 225, 237
Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision 221, 236–37
Street of the Seven Angels 221
A Time to be Human 230, 237
writer recognized 34, 235
Groppi, Father James 205
Halsell, Grace (Soul Sister) 224
Hamer, Fannie Lou 228
Harding, Vincent and Rosemarie (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) 229, 237
Hattiesburg (see Mississippi)
hospitality, Black 97–99, 109–17
Hughes, Langston xi, 231
humor, 77, 112
gallows 73, 74
improvement
financing 141–42
housing 142–43
integration 226
Jackson, Adelle 5, 6
Jews xi, xiii, 73, 77
Johnson, President Lyndon B. (social justice, civil rights and redwoods 196)
Jones, Penn (Jr.) 160–61, 168
justice 223 (and peace 171)
Equal for all 211
Plato on 53
Southern (white man’s) 48–49, 75, 109, 131, 175
Kansas, Wichita 196–97
Kerner Commission 195
King, Coretta Scott 229
King, Martin Luther 121, 142, 144, 181–82, 185–86, 194–95, 201–05, 224–26, 229 (Beloved Community 230) (“Letter From A Birmingham Jail” 226, 238)
Kozol, Jonathan 216, 236
217
Ku Klux Klan 73, 129, 138, 140, 141, 187
Latin 56
Latin Americans 28
Lee, Harper 229
legalized injustice 76
Levitan, George 4, 6, 159, 163
Levy, Gladys and Harold 156
Lewis, Ted 155
lived experience 197 (blackness as 231–32)
loneliness 12, 15–18, 79
Louisiana
New Orleans 145–147 and Claiborne 45
French Quarter 10, 22, 24, 26, 31, 43, 70–71
inequalities 81
Lake Pontchartrain 54
Negro sections 8 (South
Rampart / Dryades St) 8, 9, 14, 20, 31, 35, 40, 43, 50
lynching
Parker case 47–49 63–64 (FBI 48, 63), (Pearl River Grand Jury 48, 64), (Griffin 223)
Mansfield (see Texas)
marijuana 56
Maritain, Jacques ix, 51, 96, 137–39, and Scholasticism and Politics, 137
Mays, Benjamin 135, 140–43, 189
McGill, Ralph 77. 140–41, 189
media (see press)
Merton, Thomas 225, 237
Mexico (Morelia as rufuge for Griffin’s family) 173, 223 (Mexican) xi
Miami Republican Convention 1968, 200–201
missionaries (Black) 119–20
Mississippi 49, 54, 59–60, 62-, 81
Biloxi 81, 84–96
Hattiesburg 51–52, 60, 64, 69, 72–79
Libertyville murder of Mr. Lewis Allen 186–87
Poplarsville 63–64
Mobile (see Alabama)
Montgomery (see Alabama)
Moral conversion 42
music 70–71, 145, 173
ballad (Mack Parker) 67
blues 55, 66–67
music (continued)
jazz 7, 67
jukebox 19, 66, 68
Negro (see also Black) white treatment toward 28
Negro cafés 20, 22, 26, 32–35, 38, 40, 100, 152, (drugstore 67)
Negro Civic leaders, 144
Alexander, T. M. (businessman) 134, 145
community indebtedness of 142
freedoms 75, 182
Gayle, Mr. 33
McLendon, F. Earl 143
New Orleans leaders 33–34
Walden, A.T. (Attorney) 144
Williams, Reverend Samuel 144 “Negro-ness” 26, (as racist construction 42)
New Orleans (see Louisiana)
night as comfort xi, 231
nightmare (recurring) 117, 138
nonviolent resistance 117, 121, 138, 182 226, 228 and outside agitators 200
Other 215–17, 219, 221, 233–34
patriotism (distortions of) 79
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (see press)
prejudice 232–234 (see also discrimination and white supremacy) and art 47
beatings 66
Black discussion of/ attitudes on 9–10, 22, 26, 33, 40–43, 45–46, 63, 67–68, 201–208, 217
buses 21–22, 45–46, 61–63
communism 42, 43, 183, 200–01
courtesy 51, 151 (white 28, 33, 46) (Black 40)
dermatologist’s 9–11
education 41, 93–94, 115–16, 128, 141–143, 217–18
emotional 12–13, 212, 215
employment 39, 41–42 (& education 42, 127) (see also job discrimination)
School Board 144
Griffin’s 211, 232
harassment 35–38 (by police 45, by bus driver 45–46)
hate stare 51–53, 66–68, 117, 118, 120, 122, 126, 216. 231 218
“observing self ” of author 34, 67, 69, 215
passing over 9, 13, 123–26
skin color 10, 33–34, 179–180, 216, 225
southern 217
walking 39, 44–46, 151
white women 21–22, 52, 60, 69, 124–25, 150
press and
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 140, 189
Black Like Me reception 224, 229
Black Press (not read by whites) 190
Black Star 139
Coates, Paul (T.V. interview) 160
East, P.D. (white, liberal, newspaperman) 72–81 (and harassment 74–77, 187–189
Fort Worth Star-Telegram 154, 166–68, 170
Garroway, Dave 161–62, 223
Golden, Harry 163
Hall, Benn Sepia’s PR person 163
Jackson, Adelle Mrs, (Sepia’s editorial director) 5–6
Levitan, George (Sepia owner) 4–6, 159, 163
Lewis, Ted (interview) 155
Look (Ralph McGill - civil rights won misrepresentation 189)
The Louisiana Weekly, Negro newspaper 48–49
The Magnolia Jungle (P.D. East autobiography) 74, 77
Newsweek 235
The Petal Paper 74–77 (and citizens’ councils) 76
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 235–36
progressive newspaper men 140
Radio-Television Française 165–66
Ramparts (radical Catholic magazine) 225
Reader’s Digest 34
Rutledge, Dan, photographer q.v.
Sepia international Negro magazine 4–6, 155, 223, 235–36
Sign (mainstream Catholic monthly) 225
press (continued)
Southern attitudes 74–77
Sprigle, Ray 235–36
Terkel, Studs ix-x, 231, 239
Time Magazine 161, 163, 235
Wallace, Mike 155, 163–65, 224
progressive intellectuals
economists 142
professors 206
social sciences 42
students 40, 189, 206, 216, 228
Puerto Rican 11
racial epithets 33, 38, 46, 64, 67, 74, 77, 174
racism, (see also discrimination, prejudice and white supremacy)
Burke, Edmund on, 217
institutionalized 42, 217, 228,
in North 224–25
on racial hatred 216
reports and statistics on 159
racists (religiocity of) 42, 138 (sexual perversions of 103–106)
reverse racism as false analogy 227
Rutledge, Don (photographer) 134, 144, 145, 238 (photo section 149–156)
salaciousness and
“democratic” 28
rape 94, 103–05
salacious restroom notices 82–83 “verbal pornography” 87–95
Savage Inequalities (Jonathan Kozol) 216, 236
segregation 25, 44–45, 52–53, 171, 224 1954
Decision 75
buses 54
Selma (see Alabama)
sensuality (as escape 19)
male perspective (and sex) 15, 114 “racial purity” 104 (and “race-mixing” 42–43) (see also salaciousness)
sex
as escape from racism 19, 47, 70
false accusations toward anti-racists (woman “rap” against priests and indecent exposure) 183–185
Smith, Lillian 183 (Strange Fruit) 111
“southern traitors” 77
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 227
terrorism 49
Terkel, Studs (see press)
Texas
Dallas 6, 168–69, 217
Fort Worth 4, 166–68
Mansfield 148, 154, 161, 165, 167, 170, 221, 223
Midlothian 168 “thinking white” 232
Thompson, Fr. August 225
Thoreau, Henry David 226
threats against Griffin and family 169–71 (telephone) 161, 223
Traitor, southern 76–77
Turner, Decherd (see universities)
Tuskegee Institute 127, 128, 131
universities
Atlanta 143 (and Pres. Rufus E. Clement) 144
Black 206 (and Black Press 190) Dillard 40, 45 (and Dean Sam Gandy 78–82)
Morehouse 140
Radcliffe (Justice Curtis Bok speech 171–172)
Spelman 143, 145
Southern Methodist University (Perkins School of Theology) 169 (Decherd Turner 168–70)
Tuskegee 127–28 (and Carver, George Washington 127)
Vutha, John (Grand Chief of the Solomons) 219–20
Wallace, Mike (see press)
Washington D.C., March 189, 201
white supremacy 46–47, 140, 192- and alcohol 128–130
arms 199–200
anthropology 115
Black solidarity and friendship as buffer against 18, 53, 63, 59
Black unity 33
democracy 49
genocide 196, 200, (and sterilization 207)
history of in Epilogue “What’s Happened Since Black Like Me” 179–208
white supremacy (continued)
hostility toward anti-racist whites 74–77, 167–73, 182–84
interracial communication 190–95
media 94
mob rule 49
paternalism 131
Nazis 179, 219
police raids 199–200
racial violence 105–06
racist poison 125
religion 42, 74–75, 138, 224
sawmill worker 109
sexual attitudes 91–92, 103–06 (warnings 65–66)
sexual morality constructions 115
stereotypes (forced 180–81)
(cultural 232)
“trash element” 116
truth and comfort 7
violence as false accusation 195
White Citizen’s Councils 76, 138, 140, 141
white contempt 128–29
white lag in understanding 205–06
white misrepresentations of civil rights 189
white “outsider” 84–85
white proprietors 19, (cabs 65) white solicitation 103 (and democratic treatment 28) white youth 118, 119
writing (paralysis 69)
wife (see Elizabeth Holland Griffin)
Williams, Sterling 10, 23–31, 46–50, 147, 152–53 and
Negro women 39, 53, 236, 111 (widow 26–27)
Williams, Dr. Samuel 144
Wilkins, Roy (see Civil Rights Movement leaders)
YMCA 31–33, 35, 39, 44, 134
Young, Whitney (see Civil Rights Movement leaders)