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16th Street Baptist Church bombing, 6, 241, 243
325th Transport Company, 12
Abernathy, Ralph, 100, 123, 124, 209–10, 215, 224
Abzug, Bella, 264
Agence France-Presse, 138–39
“agitators,” 35, 98
Ahmann, Mathew, 241
Alabama National Guard, 180, 250
Alcorn A&M College, 1–2, 28, 35–36, 43–45, 49–50
Alcorn Braves, 1–2, 35–36, 37–38
Alexander, Margaret Walker, 83–84
Ali, Muhammad, 260
Allison, Doris, 230
Ambassador Hotel, 259
American Veterans Committee, 222
Anding, Meredith, Jr., 112–14
Angelou, Maya, 289
Angola State Penitentiary, 278
Another Country (Baldwin), 145
Anti-Defamation League, 268, 278
Anti-Saloon’s League, 52
apartheid, 26, 73, 108–9
Arizona Sun, 119
Arkansas and Little Rock Central High School, 246–47
Arlington National Cemetery
ceremony honoring Medgar, 297–98
Medgar’s burial at, 214, 220–24
Myrlie’s visit to, 283–87
Army, U.S., 9–10, 12–13, 29, 43, 44, 78, 138–39, 195
assassination of John F. Kennedy, 6, 241–43, 262, 278
assassination of Malcolm X, 4, 6, 258, 260–61, 262
assassination of Martin Luther King, 4, 6, 258–62
assassination of Medgar Evers, 4–5, 185–248
aftermath of, 194–209, 234–43
Beckwith arrest, 224, 225–29, 234
Beckwith ID witnesses, 230–32
Beckwith trials, 243–48, 276–82
burial at Arlington, 214, 220–24
events preceding, 183–85, 229–30
funeral, 209–19
assassination of Robert Kennedy, 6, 259–60, 262
Associated Press, 75, 90–91, 98, 101–2, 119, 165, 228, 280, 281, 287
Association of Citizens Councils of Mississippi (ACCM), 64, 66–67, 80, 105
Atlantic Richfield Company, 271
Attack! (magazine), 269
Bailey, Sam, 230
Baker, Ella, 5, 107, 124, 240
Baker, Josephine, 14, 139, 240
Baldwin, Alec, 282
Baldwin, James
civil rights movement, 3–4, 145–46, 150, 260, 295
on love, 37
Medgar and, 3–4, 6, 145–46, 208, 260, 288
in Paris, 14
Baltimore Afro American, 75
Barnett, Ross, 177, 180
assassination of Medgar, 191–92
Beckwith trial of 1964, 243, 246
Freedom Riders and, 124–25, 128
Kennard and Parchman, 148–50
Meredith and Ole Miss, 137–38
voting rights, 105
Bates, Daisy, 5, 240
Battle of Oxford (1962), 138–39
Battle of Vicksburg, 94
Beard, Fred, 247
Beasley, Annie McCain “Mama,” 253, 268
background of, 40–42
death of, 269–71
early life of Myrlie, 38, 39–40, 294
Medgar’s funeral, 211
Myrlie and Medgar’s first meeting, 45–46
Myrlie and Medgar’s marriage idea, 47–49
Myrlie and Medgar’s wedding, 49
Beasley, James Van Dyke “Jim,” 39–40. 42–43, 95
Beasley, Mildred Washington “M’dear,” 39–40, 41, 48, 67–68, 270
Beasley, Myrlie Louise. See Polk, Myrlie Beasley “Aunt Myrlie”
Beckwith, Byron De La, 258, 272, 274–82
arrest and indictment of, 224, 225–29, 234
attempted bombing of Botnick, 268–69, 278
background of, 225–26
ID witnesses, 230–32
imprisonment of, 268–69, 278–79
trial of 1994, 276–82
trials of 1964, 243–48, 264
Beittel, Adam D., 164, 212
Belafonte, Harry, 295
Belzoni, Mississippi, 69
Bend, Oregon, 274–75
Berry, Chuck, 43
Berry, Marion, 128
Betty Shabazz: Surviving Malcolm X (Rickford), 261, 289
Bevel, James, 124, 125, 128, 129, 131, 213, 233
Bilbo, Theodore G., 28–35
Biloxi Municipal School District, 104
Biloxi wade-ins, 104
Birth of a Nation (movie), 18
Bishop, Herbert, 231
Bishop, Willie Mae, 231
black-and-tan faction, 26–27
Black Panther Party, 260
Blues for Mister Charlie (Baldwin), 146, 208
Bond, Julian, 5, 249, 286
Booker, Simeon, 73
bootlegging, 22, 36, 255
Boston Celtics, 208
Boston University, 58
Botnick, Adolph, 268–69, 278
Boware, Jimmy, 25
Bowers, Rick, 101, 134
Bowers, Sam, 233, 258
boycotts
in Jackson, 54, 71, 79, 99, 104–6, 113, 144–45, 151, 154–60, 169, 176, 184
Montgomery Bus Boycotts, 80, 89–90, 92–93, 104–5, 233
Boyd, Helen Nela, 52
Boynton v. Virginia, 122
Bracey, Marie, 230
Bradford, James, 112–14
Bradley, Amanda, 76
Bradley, Tom, 253, 271, 273
Brady, Tom, 228
Branch, A. W., 247–48
Branch, Charles, 247–48
Brinkley High School, 155
Britton, Albert Bazaar, Jr., 88, 189–90, 196, 207, 237
Britton Sweet, Grace, 86–88, 275
Bronzeville, Chicago, 224
Brown, Amos, 68–69, 103–4, 210
Brown, R. Jess, 111, 135, 147–48, 224
Brown, Willie, 271
Brown v. the Board of Education, 61, 62–64, 97, 99, 111, 122, 127, 143, 154, 223, 228, 232, 243
Bruce, Blanch Kelso, 26
Bryant, Carolyn, 75, 77
Bryant, Roy, 72–80
Bunche, Ralph, 5, 209–10
Burke, Yvonne Braithwaite, 264
Burks-Brooks, Catherine, 122
Burnett, Leroy, 83
California Eagle, 52
Camp Shelby, 10, 12
Carey, Gordon, 121–22
Carnegie Hall, 2, 38, 200, 292–97
Carter, Robert, 111, 169
CBS News, 208, 218–19
Cellar, Emanuel, 241
Central High School, 246–47
Chafee, Lois, 163
Chamblee, John, 226, 231–32
Chaney, James, 195, 251–52, 274–75
Chansonettes, the, 200, 293–94
Chavis, Benjamin, Jr., 283–84, 285, 287
Chicago, 45–47, 70–71, 224
Chicago Bulls, 290
Chicago Defender, 21–22, 70–71, 209
Chisholm, Shirley, 263–64
Citizens’ Councils, 4, 65, 69, 80, 86, 87, 89, 97, 99, 101–2, 106, 168, 182, 192
City University of New York, 265
Civil Rights Act of 1957, 116, 227–28, 241
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 239, 240–41, 251, 284
Civil War, 17, 26, 94, 250
Claremont, California, 253–57, 274
Claremont Public Schools, 256–57
Clarion-Ledger, 21–22, 29–30, 63, 91, 97, 113, 119, 165, 197, 217, 224, 226, 227, 274–75
Clark, Fred Douglas Moore, Sr., 102–3, 125, 128, 129
Clark, Tom, 30
Clyde Kennard Fund, 149
Cole, Nat King, 43, 271
Coleman, James “J. P.”, 61–62, 64
College Hill Baptist Church, 113
College of Medical Evangelists, 52
Collins, Cardiss, 264
Collins, Ross, 29–30
Collins Funeral Home, 209–10, 214, 216–18
Compromise of 1877, 120
Congressional Black Caucus, 264
Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), 3, 6, 105, 107, 121–22, 130, 133
Connor, Theophilus Eugene “Bull,” 122, 155–56, 250
Cook, Alfred, 112–14
Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), 107–8, 131, 132–33, 145, 180, 251, 261
Courts, Gus, 69, 70, 90
Cox, Benjamin Elton, 234
Crisis in Black and White (Silberman), 67
Cuba, 145
Cunningham, Hugh, 243, 245, 247
Current, Gloster
Jackson Woolworth’s sit-ins, 164–65, 168
Medgar and, 80, 118–19, 130, 132
assassination, 190, 203, 205
funeral, 209–10
safety concerns, 171, 185–86
Myrlie and, 234–35
Daniels, James W., 90–91
Davis, Alexander K., 26
Davis, Jefferson, 50, 51
Davis, Joseph, 50–51
Davis Bend, 51
Decatur, Mississippi, 9–10, 13, 15–16, 20–21, 24, 30, 60
Decatur Consolidated School District, 25, 30
Dees, Morris, 275–76
De La Beckwith, Byron. See Beckwith, Byron De La
DeLaughter, Bobby, 275–76, 277, 279, 282
Delta Sigma Theta, 2, 288
Democratic Convention (1964), 261–62
Democratic Party, 26–27, 33
Mississippi Senate primary of 1946, 27–35
Dennis, David, 108, 133, 165
Dennis, Delmar, 279
Dent, Thomas Covington “Tom,” 149–50, 213
desegregation, 104, 145, 154, 172, 240, 298
of armed forces, 33
Brown v. the Board of Education, 61, 62–64, 97, 99, 111, 122, 127, 143, 154, 223, 228, 232, 243
Freedom Riders and, 107, 121–31
of Jackson schools, 140–43, 151–53, 180, 249
Little Rock Central High School, 246–47
Medgar and Ole Miss, 61–66, 67
Meredith and Ole Miss, 3, 109, 110–12, 135–40, 143–44, 147, 150–51, 172
Plessy v. Ferguson, 61
Tougaloo Nine, 112–14, 119–21, 131–32, 144–45
University of Alabama, 180, 250, 298
Detroit Council on Human Rights, 227
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, 79–80
Diggs, Charles, 76, 210
Doar, John Michael, 118, 139, 218, 297
Domino, Fats, 43
Doral Country Club and Spa, 289
Douglas, Paul, 221
Douglass, Frederick, 288
Du Bois, W. E. B, 5, 11, 59
Dukes, Hazel, 286
Dulles, Allen W., 252
Dunn, Felix, 179
Eastland, James O., 63, 65–66, 79
Ebony, 3, 15, 93–94, 95, 148, 194, 223–24, 299
Edelman, Marian Wright, 129
Edwards, Geraldine, 112–14
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 5, 62–63, 74, 90–91, 246–47, 249, 271
Elizabeth II of England, 223
Ellis, Tom Q., 30
Elraine Subdivision, 83–84
Esquire, 260
Evers, Charles
at Alcorn A&M, 2, 35–36
assassination of Medgar, 185, 192–93, 207–8
aftermath, 219, 224, 252, 254–55, 298
burial at Arlington, 221, 222–23
funeral, 212, 213, 215–16
death of father, 59–61
early life of, 11–12, 15–22
education of, 15, 18, 23–24
hatred of white people, 15, 20–21, 215
lynchings and, 19–22
of Emmett Till, 70–71, 80–81
Medgar and safety concerns, 167
Medgar and work, 137
Meredith and Ole Miss, 140
Mississippi Senate election of 1946, 27–33
NAACP Man of the Year, 264
Robert Kennedy’s assassination, 259–60
on slavery, 17–18
during World War II, 2, 12–13
Evers, Darrell Kenyatta
assassination of father, 182, 186, 187, 190–91, 197–98, 204–8
aftermath, 219–20, 223, 224, 237–38, 240
funeral, 209, 212–13
Beckwith trial of 1994, 281
California move, 254–55, 256–57
death of, 296–97
early life of, 57, 58, 67, 85, 95, 96, 114, 164, 167, 168
John Kennedy’s assassination, 242
later life of, 282–83
school desegregation, 140–43, 151–53
Evers, James, Sr., 9, 15–16, 20, 22–25, 57, 62, 70–71
background of, 22–23
death of, 59–61
Evers, James Van
assassination of father, 182, 186, 187, 189, 197–98, 204–8, 242
Beckwith trial of 1994, 277
early life of, 95, 108, 168, 173
later life of, 282–83, 296
Obama and, 298–99
Evers, Jessie Wright, 15–16, 20–21, 22–25, 30, 57, 62, 70–71
background of, 22–23
death of, 60–61
death of husband, 59–60
Evers, Keanon, 296–97
Evers, Mary Ruth, 23–24, 59–60
Evers, Medgar
activism of, 3–4, 48–49, 50, 54–55, 58, 65–66, 85–93, 97–109, 127–34, 153–60, 168–85
Freedom Rides, 121–31
Jackson protests. See Jackson Movement
Kennard case, 100–102, 109, 146–51, 152
Meredith and Ole Miss, 3, 109, 110–12, 135–40, 143–44, 147, 150–51, 172
school desegregation efforts, 140–43, 151–53
speech of May 20, 1963, 158–60
Tougaloo Nine, 112–14, 119–21, 131–32, 144–45
Woolworth’s sit-ins, 104, 162–65, 168–72
at Alcorn A&M, 2, 35–39, 43–45, 49–50
assassination of. See assassination of Medgar Evers
in Chicago, 45–47, 70–71
children and family life, 58, 84–85, 95–97, 168, 173, 175–76, 179
death of father, 59–61
early life of, 9, 11, 15–22
Ebony profile, 3, 15, 93–94, 95, 223–24
education of, 15, 18, 23–24
love of Mississippi, 14, 44, 273–74
lynching of Emmett Till, 71–81
at Magnolia Mutual, 50–51, 53–56, 84, 273
Mississippi Senate election of 1946, 27–35
at Mound Bayou, 50, 53–58, 61, 84
Myrlie and. See Evers, Medgar and Myrlie
NAACP and, 6, 89–95, 97–109, 113–14, 117–21, 127–34, 153–60, 161–62, 169–74, 176–77, 183–85, 229–30
as assistant secretary, 92–93
as field secretary, 64, 65–67, 69–70
salary, 84
safety concerns, 97–98, 136–37, 151–53, 158, 166–68, 171, 173, 183–84, 185–86
death threats, 32, 62, 65, 103–4, 117, 118, 134, 143–44, 152, 158, 180, 185, 189, 219, 221, 229–30, 247
University of Mississippi Law School and, 61–66, 67
voter registration efforts, 27–31, 55, 65–66, 69, 87, 89–92, 105, 107–9, 117, 119, 121, 127, 128, 130–31, 132, 151, 157, 180
during World War II, 2, 9–15
Evers, Medgar and Myrlie, 67–68, 137–38, 177–78, 182–83, 235–36, 262, 299
at Alcorn A&M, 1–2, 35–39, 43–45, 49–50
Chicago trip, 45–47
first kiss, 45, 46–47, 292
first meetings, 36, 37–39, 43–45
as a love story, 1–5, 6–7
marital problems, 94–95, 114–17, 143
wedding, 2, 47–49
Evers, Mike, 23, 59–60
Evers, Myrlie Louise Beasley
at Alcorn A&M, 1–2, 35–39, 43–45, 49–50, 56, 57
Arlington National Cemetery visit, 283–87
assassination of Medgar, 4–5, 185–93
Beckwith and, 225, 244–45, 246, 248, 258, 268–69, 272, 274–82
burial at Arlington, 220–24
events preceding, 183–85, 229–30
funeral, 209–24
assassination of Medgar aftermath, 194–201, 206–8, 219–20, 234–43, 262–63
March on Washington, 238–41
speaking trips, 235–41, 252–53
Betty Shabazz and, 260–61, 264–66, 289–91
California move of, 253–57
children and family life, 57–58, 64–65, 67, 83, 84, 88–89, 94–97, 108, 114, 117, 145, 164, 175–76, 182–83, 238. See also specific children
school desegregation efforts, 140–43, 151–53
Coretta King and, 264, 266, 288, 289–91
early life of, 38, 39–43
election of 1970, 263–64
election of 1987, 271–73
Florida trip with Betty and Coretta, 289–91
John Kennedy’s assassination, 241–43
Medgar and. See Evers, Medgar and Myrlie
in Mound Bayou, 55–56, 57–58, 84
music and Carnegie Hall, 1–2, 38, 292–97
NAACP and, 264, 298, 299
board chairman, 283–89, 291
Obama and, 295–96, 298–99
Oregon move of, 274–75
political career of, 263–64, 271–73
at Pomona College, 257–58, 262, 267
safety concerns, 64–65, 165–68, 174–76, 179, 229–30
Walter and, 266–68, 271, 273, 274–75, 283
in Yazoo City, 67–68
Evers, Nan, 192–93, 238
Evers-Everett, Reena
assassination of father, 182, 186, 187, 189, 197–98, 204–8
aftermath, 219–20, 223, 224, 237–38, 240, 241–42
funeral, 209, 212–13
Beckwith trial of 1994, 281
California move, 254–55, 256–57, 264
early life of, 58, 65, 67, 84–85, 96, 114, 164, 168
later life of, 282–83, 293, 296
school desegregation, 140–43, 151–53
Evers Institute, 7
Evers-Jordan, Elizabeth “Liz,” 23–24
Fair Housing Act, 284
Farmer, James, 122, 124, 130
Farrakhan, Louis, 287
Faubus, Orval, 246–47
Faulkner, William, 9
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 4, 5, 118, 119, 120, 186, 203, 207, 224, 268–69
assassination of Medgar, 226–28, 232
lynching of Emmett Till, 69, 71–72, 78, 80
Federal Civil Rights Commission, 190
Fifteenth Amendment, 27
Figgers, Frank, 106, 133, 189, 204
First Baptist Church, 123, 124, 177
First Infantry Division, 12
Fitzgerald, Ella, 43
Ford, Louis, 74
Ford Foundation, 287
Forman, James, 129
Forrest County Circuit Court, 102
Forrest County Cooperative, 101
For Us, the Living (Evers), 262
Fourteenth Amendment, 162
Fox, John, III, 247, 248
France, 12–14
Freedom Riders, 107, 108, 121–31, 232, 234
Freedom Summer, 6, 249, 251–52, 261–62
French, Alleyne “Skeet,” 241–42
Friedan, Betty, 264
Friendship Clinic, 52–53, 57
funeral of Medgar Evers, 209–19
Gaither, Tom, 131
Garner, Erroll, 84
gas station boycotts, 54, 71
General Motors, 283
Ghosts of Mississippi (movie), 282
Gibson, William F., 283, 285, 286, 287
Gilfoy, Bob, 228–29
Gilliam, Dorothy, 140
Giovanni’s Room (Baldwin), 145
Goldberg, Whoopi, 282
Goldman, Ikram, 297
Goodman, Andrew, 195, 251–52, 274–75
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Baldwin), 145
Graham, Alton, 30–31
Graham, Eugene, 70–71
Grant, Ulysses, 120
Great Depression, 33, 232
Great Migration, 70, 81
Green, Benjamin T., 50–51
Greenberg, Jack, 135
Greene, Dewey, 151
Greene, Percy, 91, 98, 161, 229
Greensboro, North Carolina, 104
Greenwood, Oklahoma, 51
Gregory, Dick, 115, 148–49, 168, 174, 183, 204, 210, 230
Grier, Rosey, 259
Grover C. Frederick Farm, 71
Guihard, Paul, 138–39
Guynes Street house, 7, 82–89, 96, 141–42, 282
assassination of Medgar, 185–93, 204–5, 229
aftermath, 194–96, 252–53
Hall, Hazel Meredith, 136, 139
Hamer, Fannie Lou, 6, 66, 77, 208–9, 240, 261
Hampton, Fred, 5
Hampton Institute, 40
Hansberry, Lorraine, 295
Hargrove, Ralph, 244, 277
Harper, Frank, 30
Harper’s Weekly, 3
Hayes, Rutherford, 120
Hederman, Rea, 274
Hederman, Thomas and Robert, 29–30, 97, 274
Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 240
Hefner, Hugh, 148
Height, Dorothy, 240
Henderson, Thelton, 170
Hendricks, Leon, 247
Henry, Aaron, 54
activism of, 71, 108, 118–19, 120, 131, 143–44, 170, 179, 252
MFDP challenge at Democratic Convention, 261–62
background of, 54
Beckwith trial of 1994, 276
COFO and, 107–8, 131, 132–33, 261
congressional testimony, 179, 223
lynching of Emmett Till, 71
Medgar and, 108, 133, 143, 147, 179
funeral, 214, 216
safety concerns, 143, 167
Himes, Chester, 14
Holder, Eric, 297–98
Holmes County Hospital, 99
Holy Ghost High School, 155
Honey Bun (dog), 263
Hood, James, 180, 298
Hooks, Benjamin, 284
Hoover, J. Edgar, 78, 118, 226–28, 232, 260
Hoover, Martha, 41
Horn, Mary Lizzie, 23
Horne, Lena, 115, 174, 183, 196, 208, 230
Horowitz, Rachelle, 239
Hospital of Knights and Daughters of Tabor, 52
House Judiciary Committee, 179–80, 223, 241
House Un-American Activities Committee, 258
Howard, Theodore Roosevelt Mason, 35, 50, 52–55, 61
funeral of Medgar, 210
lynching of Emmett Till, 72, 76–81
Hughes, Langston, 139
Humes, H. H., 98
Humphrey County, Mississippi, 90
Hurley, Ruby, 69
activism and NAACP, 91, 118–19, 130
assassination of Medgar, 199, 209, 219
lynching of Emmett Till, 71, 76
Myrlie and, 219, 234–35
Jack LaLanne Show, The (TV show), 84–85, 168
Jackson, David, 73, 75
Jackson, E. Franklin, 220
Jackson, Janice, 112–14
Jackson, Jesse, 284, 295
Jackson, Joseph, Jr., 112–14
Jackson Advocate, 33, 61, 91, 98, 119, 161, 179
Jackson Baptist Hospital, 88
Jackson Chamber of Commerce, 154, 158
Jackson Citizens Committee, 161
Jackson Daily News, 63, 97, 113, 202, 277
Jackson Junior Chamber of Commerce, 154, 158
Jackson Library “read-in,” 112–14, 119
Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport, 295
Jackson Movement, 110–34, 160–80, 183–85
assassination of Medgar, 185–93
aftermath, 198–201, 203–4
events preceding, 183–85, 229–30
boycotts, 79, 99, 104–6, 113, 144–46, 151, 154–60, 169, 176, 184
Freedom Riders and, 124–31
Meredith and Ole Miss, 110–12, 135–40, 143–44, 147, 150–51, 172, 213
Operation Mississippi, 119–20
school desegregation efforts, 140–43, 151–53, 249
Tougaloo Nine, 112–14, 119–21, 131–32, 144–45
Woolworth’s sit-ins, 104, 162–65, 168–72, 241
Jackson Police Department, 118, 120, 121, 156–57, 203, 218, 225–26, 230, 249, 276
Jackson School Board of Trustees, 140
Jackson State University, 102, 110, 112–13
Jackson Zoo, 127
Jarrett, Valerie, 299
Javits, Jacob, 221
Jealous, Benjamin Todd, 298
Jefferson-Davis County, 90–91
Jemison, T. J., 93
Jet (magazine), 69, 73, 75, 79, 148, 194, 263
Jim Crow laws, 4, 13, 76, 154, 187, 198
Jim Hill High School, 103–4
Johanson, Eldri, 145
Johnson, Allen, 213
Johnson, Derrick, 107
Johnson, Lyndon, 5, 242, 249–51, 252, 259
Johnson, Paul, 137
Johnson, Sam, 118
Jordan, Barbara, 264
Justice Department, U.S., 30, 139, 167, 169, 170
Civil Rights Division, 118, 139, 218, 228, 252
Katzenbach, Nicholas, 252, 298
Kelly, Leroy, Jr., 230
Kennard, Clyde, 100–102, 109, 146–51, 152, 213, 234
Kennedy, Ethel, 195
Kennedy, Jacqueline “Jackie,” 195, 242, 261, 266
Kennedy, John F., 117
assassination of, 6, 241–43, 262, 278
assassination of Medgar, 5, 208, 222–23, 226–27, 250
civil rights movement and, 119–20, 126–28, 129–30, 138, 158, 161, 169, 172, 239, 250
Civil Rights Act, 222–23, 239, 240–41, 250, 251
televised address of 1963, 180–83, 202, 233, 251
election of 1964, 239
foreign policy, 145, 227
inaugural address of 1961, 110–11
Medgar’s assassination, 217
Kennedy, John F., Jr., 223, 242
Kennedy, Robert, 5, 117, 298
assassination of, 6, 259–60, 262
assassination of Medgar, 217, 221, 226–27
civil rights movement and, 123, 138, 158, 252, 295
Kenya, Mau Mau rebellion, 11, 44, 57, 93
Kenyatta, Jomo, 11, 57, 93
King, Bernice, 289
King, Clennon, 152
King, Coretta Scott, 195, 240, 260–61, 299
assassination of Malcolm, 259
assassination of Medgar, 215
Florida trip with Myrlie and Betty, 289–91
Myrlie and, 260–61, 264, 266, 288
King, Ed
activism and Jackson Movement, 100, 113, 117, 144, 152–57, 183, 184–85, 259
Klan’s death list, 152–53, 232
MFDP challenge at Democratic Convention, 261–62
Woolworth’s sit-ins, 163, 168, 169, 171
background of, 100
Medgar and, 99–100, 171, 173–74, 177, 184–85, 259
assassination, 199, 203–4
funeral, 212–16
King, Estes Knight, 232
King, Jeanette, 199
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 3–4
activism of, 57–58, 100, 177
Freedom Rides, 123–24
March on Washington, 240–41, 259
Montgomery Bus Boycotts, 80, 89–90, 92–93, 233
Walk to Freedom, 227
assassination of, 4, 6, 258–62
Baldwin and, 3–4, 145–46, 260
lynching of Emmett Till, 79–80
Medgar and, 89–90, 92–93, 172, 177, 185, 227
assassination, 202, 227
funeral, 209–11, 212, 215–16
philosophy of nonviolence, 58, 92, 123–24, 198
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 92–93, 107, 123, 199–200
Korean War, 33, 246
Kosciusko, Mississippi, 112, 139
Ku Klux Klan, 4, 13, 18, 31, 65, 97, 122, 182, 232–33, 241, 249, 258
death lists, 152–53, 232
Ladies’ Home Journal, 262
Ladner, Joyce, 240
Lafayette, Bernard, 124, 125, 128, 129, 131, 233–34
Lake, Veronica, 37, 46
Lamarr, Hedy, 18
Lanier High School, 102–3, 155
Lassiter, Albert, 112–14
Lawson, James, 124, 198, 233
Lee, George Washington, 69, 81, 90
Lee, Herbert, 130–31
Lee, Rosebud, 69
Legal Education Advisory Committee, 63
Levine, Mickey, 222
Lewis, Alfred Baker, 132
Lewis, John, 5, 122, 124, 233, 241
Lewis, Pearlina, 162–65, 230
Lexington Advertiser, 99
Life (magazine), 194, 207, 223–24, 234, 281
Lincoln, Abraham, 3, 70, 120
Lincoln Memorial, 220
Lipscomb, Glenard P., 263
literacy tests, 26, 87
Little Rock Central High School, 246–47
Logan, A. M. E., 126
Lombard v. Louisiana, 162
Long, Earl K., 278
Look (magazine), 79, 242
Lorraine Motel, 259
Los Angeles Board of Public Works, 273
Los Angeles Times, 145
Los Angeles 10th District, 271–72
Lott, Hardy, 243, 244–46
Louie, Lilian, 230
Louis, Joe, 271
Luce, Henry, II, 296
Ludden, Willie, 155, 164–65
Lynch, John R., 129
lynchings, 2, 3, 25, 68–81, 73
of Brown, 68–69
of Smith, 69–70
of Till, 6, 70–81
of Tingle, 19–22, 76
Mabus, Ray, 295, 298
Madison, Joe, 283, 284–85
Magnolia Mutual Life Insurance, 50–51, 53–56, 84, 273
Major League Baseball, 66
Malcolm X, 4, 11, 110
assassination of, 4, 6, 258, 260–61, 262
Malone, Vivian, 180, 298
Marable, Manning, 7
March on Washington, 5–6, 80, 238–41, 259
Marshall, Burke, 118, 228, 252, 297
Marshall, Thurgood, 27, 29, 61, 64, 91, 111, 172
Mason, Gilbert, Sr., 104
Mason, Will, 52
Masonic Temple of Jackson, 83, 89, 97, 120, 121, 150, 154–55, 156, 170, 171, 174, 183, 198, 210–11, 216, 230
Massengill, Reed, 277–78
Mau Mau rebellion, 11, 44, 57, 93
Maxwell, Sylvester, 146
May, Andy, 32
Mayflower Hotel, 220
McDowell, Cleve, 165
McIntyre, Thorn, 277
McKissick, Floyd, 241
McMurray, Fred A., 78
Medgar Evers, USNS, 294
Medgar Evers Boulevard, 282
Medgar Evers College, 265
Meet the Press (TV show), 227
Meredith, James, 103, 111–12
funeral of Medgar, 210
University of Mississippi, 3, 109, 110–12, 135–40, 143–44, 147, 150–51, 172, 213
Mfume, Kweisi, 288
Milam, J. W., 72–80
Miller, Wallace, 248–49
Millsaps College, 99–100
Mink, Patsy Takemoto, 263–64
Mississippi. See also Jackson Movement
racism in, 15–22, 25–26
segregation in, 10, 17–20, 24, 61–67
slavery in, 16–18, 26, 41–42, 50–51, 59–60
voting rights, 25–27, 90–91. See also voting and voter registration
Mississippi Bankers Association, 158
Mississippi Economic Council, 158
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), 261–62
Mississippi Free Press, 98–100, 135, 143, 147, 149, 150–51, 198, 231
Mississippi Municipal Court, 118
Mississippi Senate election of 1946, 27–35
Mississippi Southern College, 101, 147
Mississippi State Board of Education, 64
Mississippi State College Board, 61
Mississippi State Fair for Negroes, 144
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, 97–98, 101–4, 112, 119, 133–34, 152, 161, 229, 275, 277
Mississippi Valley State College, 136
“Misty” (song), 84
Mitchell, Clarence, Jr., 116, 120, 154, 203, 209–10, 250–51, 288
Mitchell, Francis H., 3, 93–94
Mitchell, Jerry, 133–34, 232–33, 274–77, 279–80, 293, 297
Mitchell, Michael, 203
Mix, Tom, 18
Molotov cocktails, 166, 167
Montgomery, Ben, 50–51
Montgomery, Isaiah T., 50–51
Montgomery Bus Boycotts, 80, 89–90, 92–93, 104–5, 233
Moody, Ann, 152–53, 162–65
Moon, Henry, 74–75
Moore, Amzie, 54, 71, 80, 92, 107, 108
Moore, Russell, 276
Moses, Robert “Bob,” 106–9, 129–33, 249
Motley, Constance Baker, 111, 135, 165
Mound Bayou, Mississippi, 50–58, 61, 81, 84
Mount Heron Baptist Church, 93, 270
Muhammad, Elijah, 258
mulatto, 16
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), 89–93. See also specific members
assassination of Medgar, 5, 202–4, 205
Freedom Fund, 147
funeral of Medgar, 209–10, 217
Legal Defense Fund, 111, 149, 165
lynching of Emmett Till, 74–78, 79–81
Man of the Year, 264
membership, 25, 65, 71, 80–81, 87, 89, 91, 92, 105, 108, 142, 144, 157
Myrlie as board chairman, 283–89, 291
voter registration, 55, 63–66, 69, 79–80, 87, 89–92, 107–9, 117, 119, 121, 128, 130–31, 132, 142, 157, 171, 180
Youth Councils, 6, 79, 92, 103–4, 108, 127, 129, 165, 173
Nash, Diane, 124, 125, 128, 131, 213–14, 233, 240
Nashville Student Movement, 124, 128, 131, 233
National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, 241
National Council of Churches, 212, 240
National Guard, 124, 139, 180, 243, 248–49, 250, 259
National Negro Council, 29, 34
National Rifle Association, 245
National Urban League, 117, 241
National Women’s Political Caucus, 264
Nazi Germany, 2, 12–13, 14, 73, 170, 195
Needham, A. J., 31
Needham, C. B., 31
Negro Elks of Boston, 238–39
“negro,” use of term, 7
Ness, Elliot, 186
New Deal, 27, 33, 99
New Republic, 147
Newson, Moses, 73
newspaper advertiser boycott, 99
Newton County Courthouse, 30–31
Newton County Hospital, 60–61
New York Pops, 296
New York Post, 74–75
New York Times, 75, 112, 200–201, 202, 217–18, 263, 298
Nixon, Richard, 264
Nixon v. Herndon, 27
nonviolence, 58, 92, 123–24, 128, 136, 198
Norman, Memphis, 162–65
Normandy landings, 10, 12–13
North Jackson Community Council, 106
North Jackson Youth Council, 106, 144–45
Oakwood University, 52
Obama, Barack Hussein, 295–99
octaroon, 16
Oldsmobile, 61, 82, 91–92, 96, 102, 106, 143–44, 146, 149, 174, 255
Ole Miss. See University of Mississippi
Ole Miss riot of 1962, 138–39
Olney, Warren, 91
Omaha Beach, 10, 12–13, 32
Operation Mississippi, 119–20
Organic Act, 26
Owens, Denise Sweet, 96, 204–5, 254
Paine, Thomas, 121
Pan African Congress (1945), 11
Parchman State Penitentiary, 101–2, 109, 125, 126, 128, 147–50, 163, 183, 213, 233, 234, 276
Paris, 14–15
Parker, Wheeler, 71
Parks, Rosa, 5, 80, 139, 256, 265, 291, 299
Patterson, Robert Boyd “Tut,” 64
Pearl Street AME Church, 164–65, 199, 200, 293
“peckerwoods,” 17, 28, 66
Peters, Ed, 275–76, 279, 282
Peters, William, 219
Pierce, Evelyn, 112–14
Pierce, M. B., 226
Pig Law, 101
Pink Martini, 293, 296
Pitman, Paula, 96
Pitman, Reggie, 96
Pittsburgh Courier, 75
Playboy, 255
Playboy Club, 148
Plessy v. Ferguson, 61
Polk, Myrlie Beasley “Aunt Myrlie,” 2, 95, 211, 253, 268, 294
assassination of Medgar, 192, 199–200
aftermath, 219, 236–38
background of, 38, 41
death of, 269–71
early life of Myrlie, 38, 41
Myrlie and Medgar, 45, 47–49, 55–56, 116
poll taxes, 26, 27–28, 39–31, 99, 295–96
Pomona College, 257–58, 262, 267
Poor People’s Campaign, 259
Prohibition, 52
prostitution, 53
Psycho (movie), 114, 176
quadroon, 16
racism, 13–14, 43, 44, 141
in Mississippi, 15–22, 25–26
Randolph, A. Philip, 5, 135, 241
Rather, Dan, 208
Ray, A. L., 218
Ray, James Earl, 262
Rayner Funeral Home, 73–74
“read-ins,” 112–14, 119
Reconstruction, 2, 24, 26, 120, 129
Reddix, Jacob, 113
Reed, Willie, 76–77
Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL), 54, 61–62, 69
Reiley, Mark, 278–79
Reiner, Rob, 282
Reuther, Walter, 241
Revels, Hiram Rhodes, 26
Richardson, Gloria, 240
Rickford, Russell J., 261, 289
Robinson, Jackie, 66, 215
Rockland County NAACP, 5
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 33
Roosevelt, Franklin, 27, 33, 99
Roosevelt, Theodore, 51, 52
Rosewood, Florida, 51
Rucker Plantation, 14
Russell, Bill, 208
Rustin, Bayard, 92, 239
Salter, John, Jr.
activism of, 98–100, 144, 145, 156, 157, 176, 184, 199, 204, 232
Woolworth’s sit-ins, 162–65, 168–69
background of, 98–100
Medgar and, 98–100, 136–37, 157, 176, 179–80, 199
funeral, 209–10, 212, 214, 216
Sanders, Fred, 226, 232
Sanders, Lee Mack, 67
Sanders, Ruth Roanne, 294
Sanders, Stanley, 243
Sanders, Thelma, 126
Sassoon, Vidal, 296
Sawyer, Ethel, 112–14
Schwerner, Michael, 194, 195, 251–52, 274–75
Schwerner, Rita, 195
Seventh-Day Adventist, 52
Shabazz, Betty, 195, 260–61, 282, 299
assassination of Malcolm X, 258
Florida trip with Myrlie and Coretta, 289–91
Myrlie and, 260–61, 264–66, 282
Shady Grove Nursing Home, 268
sharecroppers (sharecropping), 14, 17, 18, 53, 54, 62, 71, 79, 89, 108, 112, 142, 146, 152, 210
Sharpton, Al, 284
Sherrod, Charles, 128
Shuttlesworth, Fred, 92, 235
Signal Mountain, 269, 278
Silberman, Charles, 67
Simmons, Althea, 253, 255
Simmons, William, 246
Sitton, Claude, 112, 200–201, 217–18
slavery, 59–60
in Mississippi, 16–18, 26, 41–42, 50–51, 59–60
Smith, Bennett W., 199–200
Smith, Frank Ellis, 228
Smith, Hazel Brannon, 99
Smith, Howard W., 241
Smith, Lamar “Ditney,” 69–70
Smith, Lonnie E., 27
Smith, R. L. T., 99, 133
Smith, William Gardner, 14
Smithsonian Institute, 259
Smiths Supermarket, 99
Smith v. Allwright, 27
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 92–93, 123, 128, 133, 199–200
Southern Governors’ Conference, 128
Southern Poverty Law Center, 275
Sovereignty Commission. See Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
Soviet Union, 113, 128
Speight, Herbert, 230–31, 247
Spies of Mississippi (Bowers), 101, 134
Spingarn Medal, 235, 291
Spottswood, Stephen G., 130, 222, 235
Springs, Josephine, 294
Stack, Robert, 186
Staple Singers, 115
State Fair for Colored People, 144
Steele, C. K., 92
Steinem, Gloria, 264
Stennis, John C., 79
Stevens, Robert, 213
Stratton, William, 80
Strider, Clarence, 76, 77
Stringer, E. J., 63
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 6, 105, 107, 128, 129, 233
Sweet, Dennis, 86–88, 95–96
Sweet, Dennis, III, 95–96, 204, 254
Sweet Auburn, Atlanta, 51
Swilley, Lee, 230–31
Taft, Robert, 34
Tate, Harriet, 190
Tennessee Valley Authority, 228
Terrell, Laura, 106
Texas Democratic Party, 27
Thirteenth Amendment, 17
“This Little Light” (song), 216
Thomas, Johnny B., 77
Thompson, Allen, 120, 127–28, 153–54, 156, 157–58, 161, 168–70, 180, 191–92, 207, 246, 295, 298
Thompson, Bennie, 98
Thompson, Winston J., 83
Till, Emmett, 6, 70–81
Till, Louis, 78–79
Till-Mobley, Mamie, 70, 73–74, 76, 78–79, 195, 234, 265
Tingle, Willie, 19–22, 76
Today (TV show), 196, 208, 219
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, 285
Tougaloo College, 98, 102–3, 144–45, 168
Tougaloo Nine, 112–14, 119–21, 131–32, 144–45
Tougaloo University, 162
Tri-State Defender, 73
Truman, Harry, 29, 33, 210
Trumpauer, Joan, 163
Tully, Edwin R., 234
Turner, Albert, 221
Turnipseed, Cassie Sade, 26
Tuskegee Airmen, 66
Twenty-Ninth Infantry Division, 12
Udall, Stewart, 220, 221
Union College, 52
United African Nationalist Movement, 198
University Hospital, 148–49, 189, 244
University of Alabama, 180, 250, 298
University of Mississippi (“Ole Miss”), 35, 250
McDowell and, 165
Medgar and, 61–66, 67
Meredith and, 3, 109, 110–12, 135–40, 143–44, 147, 150–51, 172
Untouchables, The (movie), 186
U.S. v. Classic, 27
Vaughn, Sarah, 43
Veterans Administration, 121
Veterans Memorial Stadium, 137–38
Vicksburg, Mississippi, 2, 40–41, 42–43
Victory Committee, 267
Vinson, Fred, 61, 62
Voter Education Project, 107–8, 180
voting and voter registration, 2, 25–31, 48, 55, 63–64, 65–66, 77, 87, 89–92, 105, 107–9, 117, 119, 121, 127, 130–31, 132, 142, 151, 157, 180, 184, 249, 251
Mississippi Senate election of 1946, 27–35
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 262, 263, 284
Walgreen’s Drug Store, 128
Walker, Edwin A., 246–47
Walk to Freedom, 227
Wallace, George, 180–82, 250, 298
Waller, William, 243–46, 248, 264
Wall Street Journal, 297
Walthall, Mississippi, 65, 130
Warren, Earl, 62
Washington, Booker T., 51, 98
Washington Post, 140
Waters, Maxine, 271
Watkins, Hezekiah, 125, 183–84, 205
Watson, Diane, 271
Wells, Carolyn, 188–89, 205, 254
Wells, Houston, 89, 99, 171, 173, 187–90, 254
Wells, J. G., 231
Wells, James, 171
Wells, Jean, 89, 165–67, 190, 254
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 70, 225
Wesley, Bernon, 31
Wesley, John, 220
White, Hugh Lawson, 63–64
White, Walter, 75
White Citizens’ Councils. See Citizens’ Councils
White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 233, 249
white supremacy, 6, 17, 18, 29–30, 35, 55, 57, 66–67, 102, 194, 210, 261, 269
Whitfield Hospital, 228–29
Whitney, S. Leon, 113
Whitten, Jamie, 228
Wilcher, Helen, 170
Wilkins, L. L., 213
Wilkins, Roy, 91, 102
Johnson and, 250–51
Kennedy and, 117–18, 126–27, 129–30, 241
lynching of Emmett Till, 75
Medgar and, 5, 75, 92, 93, 102, 108, 113–14, 117–18, 118–19, 125, 169–74, 185
assassination, 196, 202–3
funeral, 209–10, 211–12, 215
Myrlie and, 235, 241
Woolworth’s sit-ins, 169–72
Williams, John Bell, 63
Williams, Walter, 266–68, 271, 273, 274–75, 283
Wilson, Woodrow, 18
Winchell, Walter, 30, 186
Winfrey, Oprah, 5, 289
Wirtz, W. Willard, 241
Wofford, Harris, 126–27, 130
Womanpower Unlimited, 126
Woods, James, 282
Woolworth’s sit-ins, 19, 104, 162–65, 168–72, 241
World War I, 23, 70
World War II, 12–13, 43, 70, 78, 112, 123
Medgar during, 2, 9–15
Wren, W. B., 113
Wrenn, Willis Randall, 118
Wright, Eddie, 23
Wright, Elizabeth, 71–72
Wright, Essiens, 23
Wright, Medgar, 22–23
Wright, Moses, 71–72, 76, 77, 78
Wright, Richard, 14, 70, 161
Wright, Simeon, 71, 72, 73
Yazoo City, 67–68
Young, Jack, 11
Young, Johnnie Pearl, 88–89, 95, 114
assassination of Medgar, 187–91, 197, 229, 254
Young, Whitney, Jr., 117, 241
Youth Council, 106
“zoot suits,” 11
Zwerg, Jim, 122