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ABC (ABC News), 269, 331

Abilene, Kans., 34

Abernathy, Ralph, 96, 114, 280

abortion, 3, 162–63, 202, 323–29, 341, 363–67, 374, 378, 379, 385–87

Acheson, Dean, 176

Addison’s disease, 68

affirmative action, 309, 335

Africa, 23, 155

African Americans, xiii, xv; see also civil rights movement; Jim Crow; segregation

and Black Nationalism, 85–86, 104–11, 184, 212–14, 226–27, 230, 309

in Chicago, 3, 20, 26–27, 30–32, 37

in Detroit, 36

and election of 1952, 35

and election of 1960, 69

and election of 1964, 171

and legacy of slavery, 10

migration of, 3, 11–12, 84, 106

and New Deal, 11, 12

police violence against, 31, 97, 109, 118–19, 120, 123, 124–25, 155–56, 187, 189, 208–9, 227–30, 281, 316, 317, 359

in poverty, 144

racist tropes about, 82, 359

in Vietnam War, 244

Agent Orange, 239, 387

Agnew, Spiro, 290

agricultural subsidies, 9, 169

Aiken, S.C., 358

Ailes, Roger, 298

air and water pollution, 177

Alabama, 19, 83, 87, 112, 120, 123, 125, 130, 149, 170, 183, 187, 192, 266–67, 358–59, 370

Alabama State College, 92–93

Alaska, 251

Algeria, 23, 155

Alsop, Stewart, 231–32

Alvernia High School (Chicago), 39, 42

American Baptist College, 102

American Bar Association, 334

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 175, 176, 190, 325

American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), 334

American Independent Party, 270–71

American Medical Association (AMA), 205, 206, 325, 326

amphetamines, 225

Anniston, Ala., 113

anti-Communism, 24, 28, 51–52, 64, 130, 147

anti-crime bill, 310, 319

Anti-Defamation League, 190

anti-war movement, 249–54, 263–64, 271, 320–22, 329, 345–48, 351–53

Apollo 13, 339

appeasement, 46, 47, 53, 65–66, 76

Aragon ballroom (Chicago), 14

Ardennes offensive, 21

Arizona, 63, 64, 170

Arkansas, 10, 99–100

Ashkum, Ill., 14

Asian Americans, 177

Asian immigration, 8

Atlanta, Ga., 98, 159, 188, 190

Atlantic City, N.J., 153, 157–59, 184, 185

atomic bomb, 21, 52, 53

Augustine, Saint, 117

Australia, 48, 236

Avalon Ballroom (San Francisco), 221, 224

Baez, Joan, 252

Baker, Ella, xiv, 89, 90, 92, 94, 98, 99, 101–4, 157, 159

Baker, Russell, 263

Baldwin, James, 110–11

Baltimore, Md., 103

banking industry, 8

Barnett, Ross, 115, 116

Bass, Ross, 197

Batista, Fulgencio, 63

Bay of Pigs, 72–74, 132

Beatles, 161, 202–3, 207, 224–25

beatniks (Beats), 40–41

Beauvoir, Simone de, 159–60

bebop, 40

Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York City), 156

Belgium, 17

Bell, Daniel, xii

Bell Aircraft, 19, 30

Beloved Community, 104, 115, 129, 184, 212, 279

Bennett, Bentford, 248

Ben Suc, South Vietnam, 240, 241, 246, 258

Berkeley, See University of California, Berkeley

Berlin, battle for, 21, 23, 49, 54, 78

Bernhardt, Michael, 330

Berry, Chuck, 40

Bevel, James, 122–23, 185, 186, 188, 210, 218, 258

B-52s, 375, 385

Big Brother and the Holding Company, 221, 223

Big Mules, 119, 123

Birmingham, Ala., xii

Children’s Crusade in, 142, 151, 185, 188, 219

church bombing in, 132–33, 142, 266

civil rights movement in, 113, 116, 118–24, 127, 128, 130, 131, 144, 146, 154, 210–12

Dixiecrat third party founded in, 24–25

Freedom Riders in, 113

integration efforts in, 358

Martin Luther King’s letter from jail in, 122, 257, 364

George Wallace and, 267

birth control, 3, 41, 161–62, 172–74, 193–96; see also abortion

birth defects, 202

birth rate, 201

Black, Hugo, 115, 193, 194, 370

Black Belt (Alabama), 19, 185

Black Bottom (Detroit), 12, 104, 105

Black migration, 3, 11–12, 84, 106

Blackmun, Harry, 338–39, 385–87

Black nationalism, 86, 104, 107, 154–55, 213

Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, 227, 281, 316

Black Power, 213–15, 226, 227, 230, 279, 309–10

Black revolt, fears of, 82

Boise, Idaho, 168

“Bomb Hanoi” buttons, 265

Boston, Mass., 57, 65, 67, 108, 226, 227, 300, 320

Boston Globe, 66, 223

Boston University, 94

Bradley, Richard, 357–58

Bradley, Ronnie, 357

Bradley, Virda, 357–58, 361–62, 390

Brando, Marlon, 124

Brennan, William, 195

Brewer, Albert, 359

Bridgeport neighborhood (Chicago), xviii, 3, 16, 36

Brinkley, David, 347

Brookhaven, Miss., 92

Brookings Institution, 356–57, 367

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 86–87, 93

Broward Country, Fla., 361

Brown, Helen Gurley, 161

Brown, Pat, 167

Brown Chapel AME Church (Selma, Ala.), 186

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 90–91, 93, 94, 99, 125, 283, 284, 328, 336, 374, 389

Bryant Park (New York City), 320

Buchanan, Pat, 336, 338, 340

Buckley, William, 63, 64

Buffalo, N.Y., 227–28

Bulgaria, 49

Bundy, McGeorge, 180, 182

Burger, Warren, 313, 332

Burma, 23

Burrows, Larry, 233–35

buses, segregation on, 83, 88, 92–98

Bush, Prescott, 34

busing, 312, 336, 361, 362, 370, 374, 377–79, 388–89

Byrd, Harry, 91, 370–71

Cahill, Ed, 1–2, 14–18, 65, 242, 383, 391

Cahill, Judy, 21–22, 39, 42, 243, 383

Cahill, Kathleen (Kathy), 1–2, 37, 43, 383

Cahill, Stella, 2, 4–6, 8, 13, 17, 242, 248

Cahill, Terry, 2, 25, 42, 43, 242–43, 383

Cahill, William, 15

Cahill family (Chicago), xvi, 1–2, 4–6, 8, 13–18, 21–22, 25, 37, 39, 42, 43, 65, 170, 217, 242–44, 248, 383–84, 391

California, 90–91, 147, 166–67, 170, 200, 222, 227, 255, 269, 271, 274–75, 285, 287, 288, 302–3, 327–28, 378; see also Los Angeles, Calif.; San Francisco, Calif.

Calley, William, 330–31, 353–54

Cambodia, 60, 315, 321, 333, 337, 339, 340, 345, 347, 349, 351, 353, 359, 375, 387

Camden, Ala., 186

Camp David (Maryland), 321, 348

Cam Ranh Bay (South Vietnam), 245

Canada, 48

Carmichael, Stokely, 212–14, 226–30, 281, 309

Carnevas, Arnoldo, 248

Carswell, G. Harrold, 332–34, 337, 338

Cason, Casey, 152

Cassady, Neal, 205, 206

Castro, Fidel, 44, 62–63, 65, 70, 73, 255, 259

Castro, Raul, 63

Catholics (Catholicism, Catholic Church), 4, 16, 68, 111–12, 163, 173, 196, 256, 303, 326, 327, 364–65, 374

Cavanagh, Jerome, 191

CBS (CBS News), 109–10, 113, 322, 330, 333, 334

Central Highlands (South Vietnam), 182, 197

Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.), 79–81, 99, 100–101, 102

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 56–57, 62, 65, 70, 72–73, 77, 132, 154, 203, 204, 241, 255, 330, 333–34, 337

Central Park (New York City), 224

Central Ward (Newark), 228, 232

Chamberlain, Neville, 46, 47

Chandler, A. B. “Happy,” 299–300

Chaney, James, 154, 156–57, 158

Charlestown State Prison (Boston), 108

Charlotte, N.C., 103, 311–13, 336, 358, 360–61, 370

Chase Manhattan Bank, 33

Chattanooga, Tenn., 103

Chavez, Cesar, 255–56, 274–75

Chicago, Ill.

African Americans in, 11–13, 38, 185

Black nationalism in, 104–5

Cahill family in, xvi, 1–2, 4–6, 8, 13–18, 21–22, 25, 37, 39, 42, 43, 65, 170, 217, 242–44, 248, 383–84, 391

and civil rights movement, 208–12, 215–20, 230

Democratic machine in, 36

and election of 1932, 8

and election of 1960, 69

and election of 1968, 303

maps, xvi, xviii

music in, 40

Nation of Islam in, 104–8

1952 Republican National Convention in, 32

1968 Democratic National Convention in, xviii, 266, 272, 290–97, 320

public housing projects in, 20

racial violence in, 30–32, 281, 316

SDS in, 317

segregation in, 11–12, 20, 27, 30–32, 37, 155, 210, 216–20, 360, 390

urban reconstruction in, 37

George Wallace in, 266–68

Chicago Seven conspiracy trial, 318–19

Chicago Tribune, 1, 27, 43, 242, 262–63

Children’s Crusade, 142, 151, 185, 188

China, 17, 23, 45, 52, 55, 59, 179, 235, 239, 241, 269, 314, 354, 367–68, 372–73

Chinese Americans, 361

Christian evangelicals, 147, 364

Christianity Today, 364

Chrysler, 30, 33

Church, Frank, 271, 320

Cicero, Ill., xviii, 2, 6, 19, 31–32, 218–20, 232, 268, 299, 303

Cincinnati, Ohio, 227

CITGO, 33

civil disobedience, 127, 214, 260, 279

Civil Rights Act (1964), 150, 161, 167, 176, 184, 185, 325, 390

civil rights bills

Lyndon Johnson’s, 143, 145–49, 157, 249; see also Civil Rights Act

John Kennedy’s, 124–32, 142, 160

civil rights movement, xii–xiv, 147, 183–92, 207–12, 357–62; see also desegregation; school integration

affirmative action, 309, 335

after Martin Luther King’s death, 309–13

and American Revolution, 198

Beloved Community, 104, 115, 128–29, 212, 279

in Birmingham, 118–24, 144

Black Power, 184, 212–15, 226–27, 281, 309–10

busing, 312–13, 336, 360–62, 374, 377–78, 388–90

in California, 155

in Chicago, 31, 208–12, 215–20, 230

early stages of, 20, 80–87

federal government repression of, 86, 130, 157–59, 309–10, 316

Freedom Rides, xii, 112–15, 120, 212

Freedom Summer, 153–54, 157, 164, 184

Little Rock Central High School crisis, 39, 79–81, 99–102

March on Washington (1963), 126–129

Montgomery bus boycott, 92–98

map, xvii

and nonviolence, 86–88, 250

Poor People’s Campaign, 279

in Selma, 185–92

sit-ins, 102–3

and Supreme Court, 83–84, 88–91, 97, 99, 101–2, 112–13, 115, 283–84, 310–11, 313, 332, 358, 360–61, 374, 388–90

University of Mississippi crisis, 115–17

Civil Service Commission, 175–76

civil unrest, 31–32, 82, 155–56, 215–20, 227–31, 268, 280–82, 316–22, 329

Civil War, 10, 57, 81–82, 249, 281

Clark, Harvey, 30

Clark, Johnetta, 30

Clark, Joseph, 193–94

Clark, Jim, 185, 186, 189

Clark family (Chicago), 30–32, 218

Cleveland, Grover, 337

Cleveland, Ohio, 13, 168, 185, 208, 209, 292, 343

Cleveland Plain Dealer, 331

cloture, 145, 146, 197

Coffee, Linda, 324–25, 327, 328, 329, 341, 363, 365–66, 367

Cohn, Roy, 56

Cold War, xii, 24, 45, 51, 57, 59–61, 73, 134, 137, 151–52, 179, 199, 251; see also Cuban Missile Crisis

college protests, 316–17, 345–48

college radicals, 151

Collins, Addie Mae, 133, 136

Collins, Judy, 252

Columbia Records, 224

Columbia University, 40, 251, 292

Columbus, Ohio, 191, 226

Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), 372, 374, 388

Communism (Communist Party), xii, 23, 27, 50, 63, 86, 87, 131–32, 134, 253, 259, 264

Community Action Agencies, 145

concentration camps, 21

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 88, 102, 112–14, 127, 155, 157, 164, 165, 214

Connecticut, 161–62, 172–74, 193–96, 199

Connor, Eugene “Bull,” 119–22, 185, 211

consensus politics, xiii

Constitution, US, 81, 91, 125, 311, 322, 386

constitutional amendments, 81, 195; see also specific amendments

consumer protection laws, 177

containment policy, 50, 54, 57, 64, 131–32, 253

contraception, 41, 193–96

Cook County, Ill., 218

Cornell University, 317

Cotulla, Tex., 139, 140

counterculture, 41, 223–25

Country Joe and the Fish, 221

Cow Palace (San Francisco), 202, 207, 210

Cranston, R.I., 289

Cronkite, Walter, 325

Crozier Seminary, 94

Cuba, 44, 62–63, 70, 72, 136, 255, 259; see also Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis, 44–46, 74–78, 142, 179, 238, 300

Czechoslovakia, 47, 49

Czechs, 3

Daladier, Edouard, 47

Daley, Richard J., 36–37, 69, 210, 211, 218–20, 291, 293–94, 297, 303, 379, 383

Daley, Sis, 36

Dallas, Tex., 130, 134–36, 138, 142, 305, 323–25, 327–29

Dallas County, Tex., 363, 365

Da Nang, South Vietnam, 183, 233–34, 245

Danville, Va., 125, 159

Darlington County, S.C., 336

Days of Rage, 318–20

Dayton, Ohio, 226

decolonization, 23, 58–59, 155

Deep South, 112, 147, 157, 170, 282, 298, 302

defense spending, 29, 35, 61, 71, 237, 275

De La Salle Brothers, 38

Delta blues, 202

Democratic National Committee, 378

Democrats (Democratic Party)

and anti-communism, 52–53

and Chicago machine, 36

and civil rights, 111, 117, 126, 145–46, 167–69, 369–70

as defenders of slavery, 10

and election of 1932, 7, 8

and election of 1948, 24–25

and election of 1952, 34, 35

and election of 1960, 42, 65, 69, 112

and election of 1964, 168–71

and election of 1968, xiv, 168–71, 271, 274, 275, 277–78, 285, 287–88, 303

and election of 1972, 373–74, 378, 380, 384

and Jim Crow, 81–84

National Convention (1952), 32

National Convention (1956), 97

National Convention (1960), 142

National Convention (1964), 153, 184, 212

National Convention (1968), xviii, 266, 272, 290–97, 320

National Convention (1972), 379

in the South, xii, 10, 24–25, 81–84, 141, 146, 157, 184

and Supreme Court, 193

in Texas, 135, 140

George Wallace and, 148–50

Denmark, 17

Dennis, David, 157

Denver, Colo., 34, 361

DePaul University, xvi, 42

desegregation

of lunch counters, 102–3, 124

and Montgomery bus boycott, 92–98

of retail stores, 121, 122, 210

of schools and universities, 79–81, 91, 99–102

Detroit, Mich., 6, 11–12, 19, 25, 30, 36, 104–8, 124, 128, 185, 191, 226, 228–32, 268, 281–83, 357–58, 360–62, 377, 389

developers, 12, 25, 30

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Montgomery), 93–94

Didion, Joan, 200–201, 232

Diem, Ngo Dinh, 60–62, 65, 71, 73–74, 131–34, 136, 178, 355

Dien Bien Phu, Indochina, 60, 273

Dillon Read, 33

District of Columbia, 285, 310

divorce rate, 202

Dixiecrats, 24–25, 336

Dong, Pham Van, 180

Doors, 224

Doors of Perception, The (Huxley), 204, 224

Douglas, William O., 193–95

Douglas Aircraft, 29, 30

doves, 254–55, 291–92, 297, 299, 352, 372

Dow Chemical, 259–61

drug culture, 203–6, 221–25

Du Bois, W. E. B., 85

Duke University, 55

DuPage County, Ill., 170

Durham, N.C., 103

Earth Day, xv

Eastern Europe, 23, 49, 50

East Germany, 75

East Indies, 23

Eastland, James, 91, 145

East Side (Detroit), 229–30

Eckford, Elizabeth, 79–81, 100–103

Economic Opportunity Act, 145, 177

economy, 29, 347, 368–70, 378

Eddy Street (Chicago), xvi, 1–2, 15–16, 25, 26, 37, 39, 43, 170, 217, 242, 248, 304, 383, 391

Edmund Pettus Bridge (Selma, Ala.), 188–89, 192, 219, 266, 303

education, right to, 24

Ehrlichman, John, 306, 334

Eisenhower, David, 307, 316, 336, 369, 372

Eisenhower, Dwight D., and administration, xiii

background and early career of, 32–33, 54–55

and civil rights, 101–2, 111–13

death of, 307

economic policy, 64–65

and election of 1952, 34–35, 56, 64, 69, 384

and election of 1956, 38–39, 303

farewell address of, 70–71

first term of, 35–36

foreign policy, 45, 54–55, 73, 385

John Kennedy and legacy of, 68–69, 78, 130–31

Richard Nixon and legacy of, 270, 290, 304, 307–9, 316, 333, 369

and Republican majority, 35–36, 38–39, 69

and Republican Right, 55–56, 63–64

second term of, 39

and Supreme Court, 90, 193, 336

and Vietnam, 57–62, 65, 67

Eisenhower, Mamie, 290, 380

election of 1932, 7, 8

election of 1936, 12–13

election of 1944, 23

election of 1948, 24, 34

election of 1952, 32, 34–36

election of 1956, 38–39, 69

election of 1960, 63–65, 67–70, 111–12

election of 1964, 134–35, 146–47, 168–71, 176, 237, 302

election of 1968, 268, 277–78, 285–304

election of 1972, 372–81

Ellis Island, 5

Ellsberg, Daniel, 355–56, 367

Emancipation Proclamation, 117

Emerson, Thomas, 193

EMI, 224

Esquire, 292

Europe, reconstruction of, 51, 61

evening news, 123, 214, 254, 273, 298, 347, 376, 381

Evers, Medgar, 129, 131

ExComm, 74–75, 77, 142

executive privilege, 56

Fair Employment Practices Commission (proposed), 125

Fard, W. D., 104–6

Farley, James, 233–35, 240, 248

Faubus, Orval, 100

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 86, 130, 154, 157, 170, 225, 310, 316, 352, 356, 379

Federal Reserve Bank, 314, 369

Feminist Mystique, The (Friedan), 160

Fifteenth Amendment, 81, 82

Fifth Amendment, 195

filibuster, 25, 145, 146, 197, 298

Fillmore (San Francisco), 221, 224

film censorship, 4

Finkbine, Sherri, 162–63, 202

Firestone, Shulamith, 327

First Amendment, 195, 355

First Baptist Church (Montgomery), 96, 114

Flint, Mich., 300, 362

Florida, 361, 373

Florida State University, 333

Food and Drug Administration, 41

Ford Motor Company, 33, 71

Foreign Affairs, 62, 269

Fortas, Abe, 285, 298, 313

Fourteenth Amendment, 81, 84

Fourth Amendment, 195

France, 17, 23, 47, 58–60, 155, 273

Freedom Rides, xii, 112–15, 120, 212

Freedom Summer, 153–54, 157, 164, 184

free-market capitalism, 64

Free Speech Movement (FSM), 165–66

Friedan, Betty, 160

friendly fire, 247

Fruit of Islam, 109

Frye, Marquette, 208–9

Fulbright, J. William, 179, 255, 256, 274, 320, 335

Gage Park (Chicago), xviii, 216–19, 230, 232

Gallup polls, 76, 273, 281, 299, 302

Gandhi, Mohandas, 87, 97

Gandhism, 88, 96–98, 102, 112, 121, 214, 256

Gannett, 33

Garcia, Jerry, 205, 221

Garvey, Marcus, 85–86, 104, 106, 107

Gary, Ind., 6, 149, 287

gay and lesbian communities, xiii, 39, 41, 53, 56, 175, 305–7, 317–18, 387

Gay Liberation Front, 318

gay rights, 17, 175–76, 196, 317–18, 328, 379, 387

Gelb, Leslie, 356

gender inequality, 163–64

General Beadle State College, 317

General Electric, 29, 33, 267

General Foods, 33

General Motors, 13, 29, 33, 57

Geneva peace talks and agreement (1954), 60, 62

genocide, 21

Georgia, 84, 91, 112, 140, 170, 283, 295, 359

Georgia Peace Officers Association, 359

Germany, 7, 33, 51, 75, 242, 373; see also Nazi Germany

Gettysburg, Pa., 34, 249, 380

Ghana, 23

Giap, Vo Nguyen, 58

Ginsberg, Allen, 41, 203, 206, 223

gold and gold supply, 48, 62, 64–65, 69, 70, 275–76, 369

Goldberg, Arthur, 193, 194

Gold Coast (Chicago), 3

Golden Gate Park (San Francisco), 223, 225

Goldwater, Barry, 64, 65, 146–47, 150, 164, 167–70, 176, 201, 237, 249, 302, 371, 390

Goldwater Clubs, 147

Goodman, Andrew, 154, 156–57, 159

Gore, Albert, Sr., 197, 320

Graham, Billy, 98, 364, 380

Granada, 107

Grant Park (Chicago), xviii, 208, 294–96

Grateful Dead, 221, 222–23, 225, 232

Great Britain, 7, 23, 46–48, 59, 65–66, 235, 369

Great Depression, 6–7, 12, 19, 23, 25, 46–47

Great Society, 221, 308

Greece, 50, 51

Greensboro, N.C., 102–3, 110, 124

Green v. County School Board of New Kent County, 283–84, 310–13, 389

Greenwich Village (New York City), 41, 317–18

Griffith Park (Los Angeles), 224

Griswold, Estelle, xiv, 172–76, 196, 199, 386

Griswold v. Connecticut, 193–96, 201, 328, 363, 386–87

Gruening, Ernest, 251

Guam, 372

guaranteed annual income, 309

Guardian, 169

Guatemala, 35, 57, 65, 70

Guevara, Che, 63

Guinea, 309

Gulf of Tonkin incident and Resolution, 180–81, 237, 251, 255, 256, 335

guns, 209, 215, 227, 231, 262, 281

Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco), 201, 204–5, 207, 221, 222–23, 224, 225, 232

Haiphong, North Vietnam, 375

Haldeman, Bob, 307, 308, 309, 321, 329, 336, 338, 339, 345–51, 355, 356, 368, 370, 378, 388

hallucinogenic drugs, 203–6, 221–25

Hamer, Fannie Lou, 130, 158

Hampton, Fred, 316

Hampton, Va., 103

Hanoi, North Vietnam, 58, 239, 256, 260, 265, 339, 375, 380, 385

Harlan, John Marshall, 370

Harlem (New York City), 12, 25, 85, 89, 97, 108–9, 150, 154–56, 167, 168, 187, 208, 226, 228

Harris, Louis, 289, 299, 301, 379

Harvard Business School, 71

Harvard Law School, 55, 190, 311

Harvard University, 65, 66, 67, 139, 175, 205–6, 308, 317, 320, 355, 356

Havana, Cuba, 63, 230

Hawaii, 363

hawks, 249, 265

Hawthorne Works, 2

Hayden, Tom, 152–53, 260, 292, 293, 295

Haynsworth, Clement, 313, 319, 332

health care, 24, 25, 236

Hefner, Hugh, 39, 161

Herbstreith, Dolores, xiv, 148–49, 378

Herbstreith, Lloyd, xiv, 148–49, 378

heroin, 225

Hersey, John, 67

Hersh, Seymour, 330–31

highway construction, 27, 35–36, 37

hippies, 201, 205, 221, 224, 225, 231, 254, 259, 261–63, 293, 318

Hiroshima atomic bombing, 21, 45, 49

Hiss, Alger, 55–56, 269, 356

historically black colleges and universities (HCBUs), 103

Hitler, Adolf, 7, 17, 46, 47, 65

Ho Chi Minh, 58, 62, 131, 134, 241, 260

Hoffman, Abbie, 259, 293

Hofmann, Albert, 203

Hollywood, 17, 65

Holocaust, 21, 160

homosexuality, xiii, 53, 56, 175–76, 196, 199, 313, 318, 328; see also gay and lesbian communities

Hoover, J. Edgar, 130, 352

“Hound Dog” (song), 40

House of Morgan, 33

House of Representatives, US, 67, 126, 140, 148–49, 161–62, 171, 192, 299, 350–51

House Judiciary Committee, 126, 390–91

House Rules Committee, 145, 198

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 151

Housing Act of 1949, 31

housing agencies, 13–14

housing industry, 8, 12, 19, 30

housing policy, 24, 25, 26, 35

Houston, Charles Hamilton, 88–89

Houston, Tex., 135

Howard University Law School, 88–89

“Howl” (Ginsberg), 41

Hue, South Vietnam, 131, 273, 375

Hughes, Sarah, 325

Human Be-Ins, 223

Humphrey, Hubert, 146, 183, 258, 278, 285, 288, 291, 292–93, 295, 297–98, 299, 301, 302, 307, 373, 374

Hungary, 49

Hunt, Bunker, 130

Huston, Tom, 352, 356

Huston Plan, 367

Hutton, Bobby, 281

Huxley, Aldous, 203–4, 224

IBM, 33

“I have a dream” speech (King), 128–29

Illinois, 170, 282, 302–3, 373

immigration laws, 7–8, 177

India, 23, 59, 87

Indiana, 149, 287

Indianapolis, Ind., 286

Indiana University, 287

Indochina, 23, 57–58, 60

industrial mobilization (World War II), 18–19

inflation, 29, 275, 313–14, 368, 387

interest rates, 314

Iran, 23, 35, 57, 61, 65

Iraq, 23

Ireland, 14

Iron Triangle, 240

Islam, 105

Italians (Italian Americans), 27, 38

Jackson, Jesse, 218

Jackson, Jimmie Lee, 183, 187, 188

Jackson, Mahalia, 211

Jackson, Miss., 114, 124, 159

Jackson State College, 359

Jamaica, 85, 104

Jamestown, 198

Japan, 7, 17, 18, 21–23, 28, 44–47, 49, 58, 61, 66, 300, 369

Japanese Americans, internment of, 91

Jefferson Airplane, 221, 224

Jewish War Veterans, 190

Jewish Americans, 6, 21, 190, 334

Jim Crow, 20, 81–99, 117, 119–20, 123, 126, 128, 141, 146, 150, 161, 192, 198, 283, 299, 312, 358, 390

John Birch Society, 130, 147, 368

Johns, Barbara, 90

Johns, Vernon, 93–94

Johns Hopkins University, 55

Johnson, Lady Bird, 135, 192, 277

Johnson, Lyndon Baines, and administration, xii, xiv, 320

and anti-war movement, 249–50, 253–54, 255–59, 264–65, 268–68, 271–72, 275–76, 291–92, 295

and assassination of John Kennedy, 135, 138

background and early career, 139–42

and civil rights, 143–47, 150, 154, 157–59, 161, 184–86, 189–93, 197–98, 208, 229, 284, 309

death of, 387, 388

domestic opposition to, 249–53, 258–59, 268–71

and election of 1960, 112

and election of 1964, 142–43, 168–71, 176

and election of 1968, 268, 271–72, 275, 277–78, 290–95, 298, 303

and gold prices, 275–76, 369

and immigration reform, 177

inaugural address of, 178

and liberals, 141–42, 143–45, 170–71, 176–78, 253–57, 258–59, 271–72, 291–92, 295–97

and Supreme Court, 285

and Vietnam War, 178, 197, 199, 235–42, 249–50, 264–65, 270, 273–74, 277–83, 285–86, 301–2, 313–15, 321, 335, 356, 373

and George Wallace, 148, 191

war on poverty, 144–45, 176–77, 236

“Johnson treatment,” 141, 146, 191

Johnson X, 109

Joint Chiefs of Staff, 33, 44–46, 61, 65, 73, 75–77, 197, 273–74, 276, 300, 339, 376

Kameny, Frank, 175

Katzenbach, Nicholas, 185

Kelly, Edward, 16, 17

Kennan, George, 50, 51

Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, 67, 72–73

Kennedy, John F., and administration, 237, 308

advisers of, 179

appeasement and, 46, 68, 76, 78

assassination of, 134–36, 138–39

background and early career, 65–68

and Bay of Pigs invasion, 72–74

and civil rights, 114–17, 124–30, 144, 147, 160

and Cuban Missile Crisis, 45–46, 74–78, 238, 300

and Eisenhower legacy, 70–71, 78, 130–31

and election of 1960, 42–43, 68–70, 111–12, 142, 170, 269

and gold supply, 71

Lyndon Johnson on legacy of, 143

legacy of, 266

and Vietnam, 73–74, 130–34, 178, 183, 275, 355

Kennedy, Joseph P., Sr., 65–67, 68, 70, 71

Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr., 66, 73

Kennedy, Patricia, 70

Kennedy, Robert F.

and anti-war movement, 260, 265, 271, 364

assassination of, 288–89

as attorney general, 71, 112–16, 123

background and early career, 68

and Fidel Castro, 73, 255, 259

and civil rights, 112–16, 123, 255, 286–88

and Cuba, 73

and Cuban Missile Crisis, 74–75, 77, 78

and election of 1968, 276, 278, 285–88, 291, 296

election to Senate, 170

and Lyndon Johnson, 139

John Kennedy legacy of, 255, 259

and John Kennedy’s trip to Dallas, 135

and United Farm Workers 255–56, 274–75

and Vietnam War, 255–58

Kennedy, Ted, 291, 320

Kennelly, Martin, 36, 37

Kenosha, Wis., 149

Kent State University, 345–46, 351, 381

Kentucky, 111

Kenya, 23

Kerouac, Jack, 205

Kerr, Clark, 165–67

Kerry, John, 353

Kesey, Ken, 202–7, 210, 220–26, 225–26

Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver, Colo., 388–89

Khanh, Nguyen, 178–79, 181–83

Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, 273

Khrushchev, Nikita, 74, 75, 78

King, Coretta Scott, 94, 95, 98, 280–81

King, Martin Luther, Sr., 98

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

as the American Gandhi, 97–98, 214, 259

assassination of, 279–83, 287

background and early career, 93–94

in Birmingham, 119–24

and Black Power, 214, 309

in Chicago, 215–20, 230, 390

FBI wiretapping of, 130

and Freedom Riders, 114

“I have a dream” speech of, 128–29

and Lyndon Johnson, 158, 185–86, 257–59, 192

and Robert Kennedy, 112, 265, 289

and James Lawson, 102, 279

as a leader of civil rights movement, 98–99, 207–8

letter from Birmingham jail, 122, 124, 257, 364

and lunch-counter sit-ins, 103–4

and Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 156, 158

and Montgomery bus boycott, 94–97

on need for action on civil rights legislation, 117

Nobel Peace Prize, 185–86

on redemption, 96, 98, 103–4, 129, 185

religious vision of, 95–96, 280

in Selma, 185–88

Vietnam War speech of, 257–58

King, Mary, 153, 159–60, 163–64

King, Yolanda, 94

Kissinger, Henry, 308, 314, 332, 337, 340, 345, 348, 355, 367–68, 371, 372, 375, 380, 384–85, 387

Koch, Fred, 130

Korean War, 27–29, 33, 35–37, 53–55, 57, 59, 199, 235, 237, 249, 265, 269, 270

Krause, Allison, 343–45, 347

Krause, Arthur, 347

Krystoszek, Gerald, 248

Ku Klux Klan, 99, 119, 129, 130, 218, 371

Lafayette Park (Washington, DC), 191

La Guardia, Fiorello, 17

Lansing, Mich., 107

Laos, 60, 62, 70, 333–35, 340, 375, 387

Latin America, 8

Latinos, 8, 144, 177, 361

Lavender Scare, 53, 56, 175

“law and order,” 149, 168, 265, 270, 282, 287, 289–97, 303, 310, 313

Lawson, James, 102, 103–4, 113, 279

Leary, Timothy, 205–6, 222

Lee, George, 92

Left, the, xii–xiv, 143, 249–50, 254, 347, 380

LeMay, Curtis, 44–46, 49, 50, 71, 76, 300–301, 315

Levee (Chicago), 4

Levison, Stanley, 208

Lewis, Jerry Lee, 40

Lewis, John, 102, 104, 128, 184, 188–89, 212

Lexington, Ky., 103

liberals, xii, 117, 120, 126, 141–42, 144, 149, 177, 184, 253–56, 260, 268, 271, 273, 278, 293, 319–22, 334, 338, 373, 377

Liberty, Miss., 115

Life, 67, 163, 202, 222, 235, 331

Lincoln, Abraham, 57, 125, 157, 249

Lincoln Memorial, 127, 132, 261, 349–50

Lincoln Park (Chicago), 293–95

Little, Malcolm, see Malcolm X

Little Richard, 40

Little Rock, Ark., 39, 79–81, 99–100, 102, 111, 113

Lockheed, 30

Long Beach, Calif., 30

Los Angeles, Calif., 104, 124, 185, 188, 190, 208–9, 223, 227, 287, 311, 336, 358; see also Watts rebellion

Los Angeles County, Calif., 205

Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), 209

Los Angeles Times, 335

Lost-Found Nation of Islam, see Nation of Islam

Louisiana, 83, 84, 170, 206

Louisville, Ky., 191

Loving v. Virginia, 283

Lowenstein, Allard, 271, 319

Lowndes County, Ala., 213

Lowndes County Freedom Organization, 213

lunch-counter protests, 102–3, 110

lynchings, 82

lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), 203–6, 221–25

Macon, Ga., 40

Maddox, Lester, 359

Madison, Wis., 148–49, 260–61

Madison Square Garden (New York City), 97, 169

Magel, Jim, 248

Mailer, Norman, 39, 261

Malaya, 23

Malcolm X, 107–11, 124, 127, 154–55, 187, 213

Manchester, N.H., 270

Manila, battle for, 21

Mansfield, Mike, 334

Mantua Corners, Ohio, 380–81

Mao Zedong, 52, 179, 314, 373

march on the Pentagon, 260–63

March on Washington (1963), 126–29, 132, 142–44, 184

March on Washington (1965), 253

March on Washington (1969), 347

March on Washington Movement, 88

Marietta, Ga., 19, 30

Marion, Ala., 186–88

Marquette Park (Chicago), xviii, 390

Marshall, George, 51, 55, 90

Marshall, Thurgood, 89, 283, 389–90

Maryland, 149, 289, 377

Massachusetts, 8, 190, 289

Mattachine Society, 175, 328

McCain, John, Sr., 339, 340

McCarthy, Abigail, 277

McCarthy, Eugene, 271–72, 274, 277–78, 285–88, 291, 293, 296, 319, 320, 373

McCarthy, Joseph, 28, 34, 35, 52–53, 55, 56, 63, 148–49

McCarthyism, 39, 316

McCluskey, Henry, 324, 328–29, 341, 342

McCormick, Katharine Dexter, 41, 161–62

McCorvey, Missy, 305

McCorvey, Norma (Jane Roe), 305–7, 323–24, 328–29, 341–42, 363

McGovern, George, 271, 320, 334–35, 373, 374, 376, 378–80, 383

McIntyre, James, 326

McMillan, James, 311, 313, 336, 358, 360

McNair, Denise, 133, 136

McNamara, Robert, 71, 75, 76, 180, 182, 235, 237, 238–39, 241, 248, 249, 256, 261, 262, 354

Meadlo, Paul, 330

measles, 325

Medicaid, 177

Medicare, 177, 270

Meet the Press, 226

Mellon family, 206

Memphis, Tenn., 40, 279–80

Meredith, James, 115

Meridian, Miss., 154, 157

Mexico, 8, 327

Miami Beach, Fla., 289–90

Michigan, 8, 169, 191, 229, 282, 302, 377, 389

Midwest, the, 170, 298

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 36

Milan, Mich., 107

military aid, 61

military draft, 17–18, 20, 27, 52, 107, 238

deferments and discrimination in, 243–44

draft card burnings, 252, 259

military-industrial complex, 70–71, 151–52

Miller, Clarence, 1, 42, 43

Milliken v. Bradley, 389–91

Milwaukee, Wis., 106, 149, 150

minimum wage, 144, 169, 177

Minnesota, 146

Mississippi, 30, 145, 170, 192, 295

anti–civil rights violence in, 39, 92, 124, 129–30, 359

civil rights movement in, 114–15, 150–51, 153–54, 156–59, 164, 166, 184

Democratic Party in, 13, 112

integration efforts in, 313, 332, 335–36

Jim Crow in, 83, 91

Mississippi Delta, 19, 40, 92, 115–17, 130, 150–51, 154, 157, 212–13

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), 153, 156–59, 164, 184

Missouri, 130

Mobile, Ala., 360

Monterey, Calif., 225

Monterey Pop Festival, 318

Montgomery, Ala., 90, 95, 103, 113–14, 116, 150, 218, 219, 250, 267

Montgomery bus boycott, 92–98, 101

Moorish Science Temple, 104–5

Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, 319

Morehouse College, 94, 281

Morocco, 23

Morris, James G., 173–74

Morrison, Emily, 248

Morrison, Norman, 248–49, 252–53, 257–58, 261, 347, 364

Morse, Wayne, 271, 274

Moscow, USSR, 46, 63

Moscow summit (1972), 375

Moses, Bob, 115, 153, 154, 156, 158, 159, 166, 184, 251

Muhammad, Elijah, 106–11, 127, 154, 187, 211, 226

Munich agreement, 46–48, 65–66

music, 40, 161, 202, 221, 224–25, 252, 318

Muskie, Ed, 373–74

My Lai massacre, 329–32, 334, 335, 337, 353–54

Nagasaki atomic bombing, 21, 22, 45, 49

napalm, 44, 59, 239, 252, 254, 259

Nash, Diane, 113

Nashville, Tenn., 102, 103, 113, 361

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 84–94, 97, 99, 100, 102, 126–29, 195, 214, 258, 283, 311–13, 320, 333, 334, 337, 358, 360–62, 388, 390

National Guard, 32, 79, 80, 100, 209, 215–16, 218, 227–31, 261, 281, 294, 296, 344, 345, 346, 376

national health care, 24, 25

National Liberation Front (NLF, Viet Cong), 62, 65, 71, 73, 182, 197, 233–36, 238, 253, 272–73, 286, 291, 330, 384

National Organization for Women (NOW), 325, 326

National Review, 63

National Security Council, 74–75

National Socialists, 7

National Steel, 33

National Urban League, 127

National War College, 45

National Youth Administration, 140

Nation of Islam, 104–8, 127, 154, 187

Native Americans, 144, 287

Nazi Germany, xii, 17, 18, 21–23, 44, 46–49, 66, 300

NBC (NBC News), 226, 274

Nebraska, 285

neo-Nazis, 188

Neshoba County, Miss., 170

Netherlands, The, 17

Newark, N.J., 227, 228, 232, 263, 265, 268

New Deal, 9, 11–14, 16, 18–19, 24, 25, 29, 33, 34, 36, 52, 64, 88, 140, 144, 171, 236, 253, 291, 308–9, 362, 373

New Hampshire, 32, 270, 272, 274, 277, 373

New Haven, Conn., 172–74, 191, 320

New Haven Register, 196

New Jersey, 141, 190

New Kent County, Va., 283–84

Newton, Huey, 227

New York City

anti-war movements in, 250, 259, 263–64, 292, 320, 348, 351

Black migration to, 11

and civil rights movement, 167, 185, 190, 208, 257

Civil War draft riots in, 249

counterculture in, 41, 206, 222, 224, 226–27

Democratic Party in, 13

gay street life in, 17

Great Depression in, 6

Stonewall rebellion, 317–18

urban reconstruction in, 36

New Yorker, The, 67, 246

New York Review of Books, 226

New York State, 8, 302, 326, 363–65

New York Times, 33, 42, 57, 96, 121, 123, 214, 222, 224, 255, 263, 274, 275, 325–26, 329–30, 333, 337, 354–57, 360, 361, 364, 368, 372, 379

New York University, 154, 366

Nigeria, 23

Nixon, E. D., 93, 96

Nixon, Julie, 307, 347

Nixon, Pat, 380

Nixon, Richard M., and administration, xiii, xiv, 249

arms control initiatives, 378

background and early career, 55–56

California gubernatorial campaign (1962) and aftermath, 269–70

and China, 367–68, 372–73

and civil rights, 309–10, 313, 316, 332–33, 335–37, 359–60, 370–71, 374, 378

and civil unrest, 316–17, 319–22, 336

domestic agenda of, 308–9

economic policy of, 368–69

Dwight Eisenhower and legacy of, 307–8

and election of 1960, 64, 65, 69, 111

and election of 1968, 272, 282, 284, 289–90, 298, 299, 301–4

and election of 1972, 372–74, 379–80, 384

and liberals, 319

mental breakdown of, 350–51

racial agenda of, 309–10

and Supreme Court, 313, 332–33, 337–39, 370–71, 374, 385, 388–91

and USSR, 314, 354, 368, 378

and Vietnam War, 313–16, 329–35, 337, 339–41, 345–47, 349, 352–56, 371–72, 375–76, 384–85, 387–88

and Watergate break-in, 378–79, 388

Nol, Lon, 337, 339

Normandy, 21, 75

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 33, 34

North Beach (San Francisco), 41

North Carolina, 88, 89, 103, 360

North Carolina A & T, 102–3

Northeast, the, 170, 298, 302

North Korea, 27, 53, 60, 235, 385

North Side (Chicago), 218

Norway, 17

nuclear weapons, 44–45, 52, 169, 199, 264–65, 300, 314, 378; see also Cuban Missile Crisis

Oakland, Calif., 226, 227, 252, 260, 287, 288

Oberlin College, 153

O’Donnell, Kenneth, 138

Oglala Lakota, 287

Ohio, 8, 28, 302, 380–81

Ohio Wesleyan University, 153

Oklahoma, 182

Omaha, Nebr., 107, 287

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey), 204–5

101st Airborne, 101

Operation Rolling Thunder, 182–83, 237, 265, 315

oral contraceptives, 41–42

Orange County, Calif., 368

Oregon, 285

organized crime, 63

Oswald, Lee Harvey, 136

Pace University, 348

Pacific theater (World War II), 21, 22

pacifism, xii, xiv, 86–88, 97, 116, 214, 250–53, 260, 261, 279, 293–94, 296

Paris, France, 17

Paris peace talks, 286, 292, 301–2, 315, 332, 337, 352, 371, 379, 385

Parkland Memorial Hospital (Dallas, Tex.), 138

Parks, Rosa, 92, 93, 96, 98, 101

PCP, 225

Pearl Harbor (Honolulu), 18

Pennsylvania, 8, 302

Pentagon, see Defense Department

Pentagon building (Washington, DC), 248–49, 252, 260–63, 263–64, 287, 293, 320

Pentagon Papers, 354–57

Perlstein, Rick, xiii

Perry, Ga., 359

Philadelphia, Miss., 156

Philadelphia, Pa., 108, 155, 208, 209, 227, 309, 335, 380

Philippines, 21, 23

Phoenix, Ariz., 64, 162, 206

pill, the, 41–42, 161, 201–2

Pine Ridge Reservation, 287

Pittsburgh, Pa., 343

Planned Parenthood, 41, 162, 172–73, 325, 366

Playboy, 39, 161

Plessy, Homer, 83–84, 90

Plessy v. Ferguson, 10, 84, 90

Plumbers, the, 367, 372, 378–79

Poe v. Ullman, 173

Poland, 2, 17, 21, 49

Poles (Polish Americans), xviii, 3, 8, 20, 37, 38

poll taxes, 82

pollution, air and water, 177

Poole, Elijah, see Muhammad, Elijah

Poor People’s Campaign, 279

popular culture, 40–41, 161, 201–7, 220–26, 252, 318

populism, 120, 270–71, 299, 358–59

pornography, 3

Potter, Paul, 153, 253

Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 191

poverty, 26, 39, 128, 144, 177, 229, 244

Powell, Adam Clayton, 208

Powell, Lewis, 371

premarital sex, 194, 201–2

Presley, Elvis, 36, 40, 161

price supports, 9, 169

privacy, right to, 193–96, 201

pro-life movement, 364–65, 373; see also right to life

Protestant social reformers, 3–4

public housing projects, 20

public schools, 210, 236, 374; see also desegregation; school integration

public works programs, 9, 177

Pullman Company, 87

Pullman porters, 86–87, 93

pulp magazines, 39

Quakers (Quakerism), 88, 253

Quang Tri City, South Vietnam, 375

Queens College, 154

Que Son Valley (South Vietnam), 248

race-baiting, 359

racial populism, 270–71, 299, 358–59

racism, 10, 11, 82, 96, 149, 226, 245, 309, 359

radicals, xii, 151–54, 226–27, 250–51, 259, 289, 292, 296, 316, 322, 379

Raleigh, N.C., 103

RAND Corporation, 355–56

Randolph, A. Philip, 86, 87–88, 96, 126–28

rape, 82, 225

Ray, James Earl, 280

Rayburn, Sam, 139–40

RCA, 224

Reagan, Ronald, 226, 348

realtors, 12, 14, 30, 216, 218, 219–20

Reconstruction, 83

Red Army, 23, 48, 49, 54, 78

red-baiting, 25, 28, 56, 269

“red diaper babies,” 151

Reeb, James, 190–91, 192

Rehnquist, William, 64, 371

Reporter, 142

Republican Right, 51–52, 55, 63, 179, 237

Republicans (Republican Party)

and anti-Communism, 24, 28, 52–53, 64

Black support for, 69

and busing, 370

and civil rights, 117, 126, 141, 145–47, 150, 284, 327

and election of 1932, 7, 8

and election of 1936, 9–10, 13

and election of 1948, 24–25

and election of 1952, 28, 33–35

and election of 1960, 64, 111, 112

and election of 1964, 146–47, 150, 169–70

and election of 1968, 269, 282, 302–3, 384

and election of 1972, 372–73, 378–79, 380, 384

and immigration, 7–8

National Convention (1952), 128

National Convention (1964), 164, 168

National Convention (1968), 289–90

National Convention (1972), 380

and New Deal, xii

radical, 81, 85

and Supreme Court, 193

Republic Steel, 33

Reuther, Walter, 117, 128, 158, 255

Reynolds, Frank, 331

Rhode Island, 289

Ribicoff, Abraham, 297

Richmond, Va., 103

Right, the, xii–xiv, 52, 53, 55, 56, 59, 63–65, 143, 249, 273, 368, 380

right to choose, 327

right to life, 326, 364–65, 374; see also pro-life movement

Riverside Church (New York City), 257

Robertson, Carole, 133, 136

Robinson, Jackie, 300

Robinson, Jo Ann, 92–93, 96

Rockefeller, Nelson, 348

Roe v. Wade, 341–42, 363, 365–67, 374, 385–87, 389

Rolling Stones, 202

Romania, 49

Romney, George, 169, 191, 269

Rompala, Chester (Stella Cahill’s brother), 5

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 97, 119

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, and administration, 7–13, 16–18, 23–26, 29, 32–33, 46–49, 65–66, 68, 87, 88, 107, 140, 171, 236, 347

ROTC, 346

Roth, Stephen J., 361–62, 377, 389

Roxbury (Boston neighborhood), 227

Rubin, Jerry, 223, 254, 260, 293

Rusk, Dean, 75, 180, 182, 238

Russell, Richard, 140, 141

Rustin, Bayard, xiv, 88, 96–99, 102, 112, 115, 126–28, 143–44, 158, 184–85, 207, 250

Rutgers University, 345

Sacramento, Calif., 227

Safe Streets Act, 310

Saigon, South Vietnam, 61, 62, 71, 73, 131, 133, 134, 178, 179, 181–83, 197, 240, 249, 272–73, 302, 384

St. Ferdinand’s parish (Chicago), xvi, 26, 37, 38

St. Louis, Mo., 251

St. Patrick’s Cathedral (New York City), 364

St. Patrick’s High School (Chicago), 38, 42, 242

St. Philip’s High (Chicago), 16

Sanchez, Manolo, 349–50

Sandersville, Ga., 106

San Diego, Calif., 169

San Francisco, Calif., 41, 124, 201–5, 207, 221, 223, 226, 227, 232, 251, 260, 322, 361; see also Haight-Ashbury

San Quentin Prison, 104

Saturday Evening Post, 169, 201, 231, 232

satyagraha, 87, 97

Savio, Mario, 164–67

school segregation and desegregation, see desegregation; segregation

Schwerner, Michael, 154, 156–57

school integration, 283–84, 290, 310–13, 332, 335–36, 357–58, 359–62, 374, 377, 388–390

Scott, Bruce, 175, 196, 199, 328

Scott ruling, 196

Scottsboro Boys, 87

Seale, Bobby, 227, 316

“search and destroy,” 65, 239–40, 245–46, 286, 315

Sears, 26

Secret Service, 138, 350, 387

segregation; see also desegregation; Jim Crow

Gandhians’ resistance to, 88, 92–98

and Jim Crow system, 83–84

in movie theaters, 83

in northern and western cities, 11–12, 20, 30, 37, 209–10, 216

origins of, 10

on railroads, 83

in real estate market, 30

in schools, 79–81, 89–92, 91, 310–13, 332

support for, 10–12, 20, 81–87, 149

Selma, Ala., 185–93, 197, 208, 210, 212, 218, 219, 266, 303

Senate, US, 28, 55, 56, 64, 140, 141, 145, 170, 181, 190, 198, 238, 256, 271, 275, 283, 285, 332, 333, 335, 336, 338, 388

Senate Armed Services Committee, 340

Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 179, 255, 335, 353

Senate Judiciary Committee, 145, 177

Seoul, South Korea, 27

“separate but equal” doctrine, 10, 83–84

Sex and the Single Girl (Brown), 161

sex education, 365

sexuality, xv, 3, 17, 39–41, 56, 82, 93, 161, 194, 201–2, 386–87; see also homosexuality

sexual orientation, 53, 175–76

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (album), 224

Shaw University, 89, 103

Signal Corps, 21

Sihanouk, Norodom, 337

“silent center,” 282, 384

silent majority, 322, 329, 338, 376

sit-ins, xii, 102–4, 107, 110–11, 121, 124, 166, 191, 251, 252, 259

Situation Room (White House), 273

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.), 118, 132–33

slavery, 10, 81, 82

Slovaks, 3

Smith, Howard W., 160–61, 198

Smith, Lamar, 92

Smith College, 347

socialism, 33, 86–87, 88

socialized medicine, 25

social reformers, 3–4

Social Security, 9, 34, 35, 169, 177

sodomy laws, 328–29, 365, 387

Solomon Islands, 66

South, the, xii; see also Deep South; Mississippi Delta; Upper South

Civil War–related violence in, 115

Democrats’ post–Civil War domination of, 10, 82, 84, 111

early civil rights movement in, 88–89, 98, 102, 107, 110, 141

and election of 1932, 8

and election of 1960, 141–42

and election of 1964, 146–48, 167

and election of 1968, 303

Jim Crow system in, 81–83, 126

map, xvii

and New Deal, 11

South Africa, 48, 87, 150

South Carolina, 24–25, 167, 170

South Dakota, 285, 287, 317

Southeast Asia, 23, 179, 387

southern bloc, 25, 184

Southern California, 147, 169–70, 368

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 98–99, 103, 121, 124, 127, 157, 159, 186, 190, 207–8, 210, 211, 215–17, 219, 220, 258, 312

southern Democrats, xii, 10, 24–25, 81–84, 141, 146, 157, 184

South Korea, 27, 53, 60, 237

South Side (Chicago), 3, 4, 12, 18, 20, 26, 30–31, 106, 150, 216, 217, 218, 296

Southwest Texas State Teachers College, 139

Soviet Union (USSR), xii, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 33, 44–55, 57–59, 63, 69, 73–78, 86, 130, 136, 168, 241, 314, 354, 368, 375, 378

space program, 196, 339

Spanish-American War, 249

Spanish flu, 5

Speakers’ Corner (Harlem), 85

Springfield, Ore., 202–3

Stalin, Joseph, 23

Stanford University, 71, 154, 203, 204, 317, 345

states’ rights, 64

“statism,” 33

Stennis, John, 340

Stevenson, Adlai, 32, 35, 69, 135

Stewart, Jimmy, 380

Stewart, Potter, 194

Stockholm, Sweden, 163

stock market, 65, 347

stockyards (Chicago), 6

Stonewall rebellion, 317–18

STP, 225

Strategic Air Command, 45

Studebaker, 33

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 104, 113–15, 120, 127, 130, 150–54, 156, 163–64, 166, 184–85, 188, 207–8, 212–14, 227, 251, 259, 279

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 151–52, 250–54, 258, 260–61, 293, 294, 317, 318, 320

studio production code, 17

suburbs, 30, 35–38, 147, 149, 210, 227, 231, 232, 282, 287, 288, 357, 362

Summer of Love, 224–25, 232

Sunrise at Campobello (film), 347

Supreme Court, US, 30, 89, 97, 102, 112, 115, 174–75, 299, 358, 362, 371

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 90–91, 93, 94, 99, 125, 283, 284, 328, 336, 374, 389

Green v. County School Board of New Kent County, 283–84, 310–13, 389

Griswold v. Connecticut, 193–96, 201, 328, 363, 386–87

Lyndon Johnson and, 285

John Kennedy and, 113

Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver, Colo., 388–89

Loving v. Virginia, 283

Milliken v. Bradley, 389–91

Richard Nixon and, 310, 332–35, 337–38, 355, 356

Plessy v. Ferguson, 10, 84, 90

Poe v. Ullman, 173

Roe v. Wade, 341–42, 363, 365–67, 374, 385–87, 389

Franklin Roosevelt and, 88

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 360–61, 370, 388

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 360–61, 370, 388

Taft, Robert, 28, 34, 36, 63

“Talented Tenth,” 85, 94

Tallahassee, Fla., 124–25, 333

Talmadge, Herman, 91

Tampa, Fla., 227

Tan Son Nhut, South Vietnam, 272

Taylor, Maxwell, 45–46, 183, 197

teach-ins, 251–52, 259

Teamsters, 265

television, 36, 37, 40, 123, 202, 273; see also evening news

tenements, 20, 36, 177, 228

Tennessee, 111, 197, 358

Terry, Michael, 330

Tet Offensive, 272–73, 286, 330

Texas, 10, 25, 89, 112, 134–35, 140, 144, 147, 190, 197, 295, 325, 327, 387

Thailand, 372

thalidomide, 162, 202

Thieu, Nguyen Van, 384–85

Third Amendment, 195

Thirteenth Amendment, 81

Tho, Le Duc, 332

Thompson, Hunter S., 224

Thornton, Big Mama, 40

Thurmond, Strom, 24–25, 167, 285, 298, 358

Till, Emmett, 39, 92

Tillman, Ben, 82

Time, 33, 67, 98, 204, 214, 266, 373

Title VII of Civil Rights Act, 161

Tokyo, firebombing of, 21, 44

Trips Festival, 221

Truman, Harry, and administration, 23–25, 27–29, 32, 33, 35–36, 49–56, 59, 61, 176, 179, 237, 265, 269, 270

Truman Doctrine, 51

Trumbull, John, 198

Tulsa, Okla., 230

Tunisia, 23

Turkey, 50, 51, 75, 78

Twenty-Second Amendment, 63–64

Uganda, 23

unemployment (unemployment rate), 7, 9, 13, 24, 29, 36, 368

unions and unionization, 9, 13, 19, 36, 86, 87–88, 117, 126, 155, 160, 169, 255–56, 265, 334

United Automobile Workers (UAW), 117, 127, 128, 158, 255

United Fruit Company, 57

United Nations, 48, 252

United Press International (UPI), 349

Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), 85–86, 92, 106, 107

University of Alabama, 125

University of Buffalo, 344, 348

University of California, Berkeley, 90, 151, 154, 164–67, 223, 226, 250–52, 254, 317, 345

University of Chicago, xviii, 37, 211

University of Maryland, 345

University of Michigan, 151, 152, 251, 320

University of Mississippi, 115–17

University of Notre Dame, 242–43, 383

University of Oregon, 203

University of Texas, 325, 327

University of Washington, 348

University of Wisconsin, 148–49, 251, 260–61, 320, 345

Upper South, 112–13, 147, 170, 282, 302

Upper West Side (New York City), 257, 292

urban renewal, 26–27, 31, 36–37, 177, 236

US Census Bureau, 202

US Department of Defense (“Pentagon”), 29, 30, 36, 57, 71, 74, 151–52, 237, 247, 261, 275, 339, 345, 352, 355, 387; see also Joint Chiefs of Staff; Pentagon

US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 284

US Department of Justice, 123, 190, 284, 313, 316, 360

US Department of Labor, 175–76

US Department of State, 28, 50, 52, 53, 55, 56–57, 61, 172, 339

US Department of the Treasury, 57, 71

US dollar, 48, 65, 275–76, 369–70

USS Maddox, 180

USSR, see Soviet Union

USS Turner Joy, 180

Vacuum Can Company, xvi, 22–23, 27, 29, 38, 39, 42, 243

Vatican, 133

Vice, Rex, 347

Vice Lords, 210

Viet Cong, see National Liberation Front (NLF)

Viet Minh, 58, 59, 62

Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 352–54

Vietnam War, xii, xv

air war in, 180–181, 182, 196–97, 239, 277, 301, 315, 333–34, 352, 371–72, 375–76, 379, 385

and anti-war movement, 249–54, 263–65, 248, 271, 320–22, 329, 345–48, 351–53

casualties, US, 131, 182, 197, 209, 273, 286, 315, 329, 335, 376, 388

casualties, Vietnamese, 241, 246, 247, 273, 330, 388

and economy, 237, 275–77, 313–14, 368–70, 387

ground war in, 239–41, 272–273, 314–15, 330–31, 339–40, 349, 376

historical background, 57–62

Lyndon Johnson and, 178–83, 189, 196–97, 199, 233–42, 268–69, 277–79, 291–93, 313–16, 373

John Kennedy and, 67, 70, 71, 73–74, 131–34

map, xix

My Lai massacre, 329–32, 334, 335, 337, 353–54

Richard Nixon and, 371–72, 375–76, 378–81, 384–85, 387–88

peace talks, 277–79, 286, 292, 301–2, 315, 332, 337, 352, 371, 379, 385

soldiers’ experience in, 244–48

Tet Offensive, 272–73, 286, 330

Village Voice, 263–64

Vinton, Bobby, 161

Virginia, 91, 93, 111, 141, 198

Vogue, 200

voter registration drives, 92, 98, 150–51, 185–87, 192, 210, 266

voting rights, 10, 82, 89, 126, 185–86, 299

Voting Rights Act, 208, 266, 390

voting rights bills, 141, 197

Wabash College, 347

Wade, Henry, 329

Walker, Patrick Gordon, 235

Wallace, George

and busing, 370, 374

and civil rights bill, 130, 131

and civil rights movement, 188, 190, 281, 282

Lyndon Johnson and, 191

presidential campaigns of, xiv, 148–49, 168, 266–68, 270–72, 282–84, 287, 289–90, 298–302, 309, 322, 373–74, 377–78, 384, 389, 390

as racial populist, 270–71, 358–59

and segregation, 120, 125

Wallace, Lurleen, 266–67, 282, 302, 358

Wallace, Mike, 110, 330

Wall Street, 7, 57, 71, 259, 320, 347, 348, 351

Wall Street Journal, 282

war on poverty, 144–45, 176–77, 236

Warren, Earl, 90–91, 101, 194–95, 285

Warren, Mich., 362

Warsaw uprising, 21

Washington, DC, 106, 112, 175, 191, 208, 226, 251, 279–81, 319, 329; see also March on Washington (1963); March on Washington (1965); March on Washington (1969)

Washington, George, 70

Washington Post, 33, 121, 156, 196, 337, 343, 344, 355, 368, 379, 388

Watergate, 367, 372, 378–79, 388

Waters, Muddy, 40

Watts neighborhood (Los Angeles), 226, 232, 288

Watts rebellion, xii–xiii, 208–9, 228

Wayne, John, 200

Weathermen, 318–19

Weddington, Sarah, 324–25, 327, 341, 363, 365–67, 374

Wehrmacht, 21, 46, 49

Weinberg, Jack, 165

Welch, Robert, 130

welfare state, xiii, 9, 309

“We Shall Overcome” (song), 164, 217, 252, 296

Wesley, Cynthia, 133, 136

West, the, 69, 146–48, 298, 361

Westchester County, N.Y., 380

West Eddy Street (Chicago), see Eddy Street

Western Electric, 2, 31

Westinghouse, 343

Westmoreland, William, 239, 240, 258

West Side (Chicago), 4, 6, 12, 15, 20, 23, 37–38, 210, 215–17, 228–30, 232

West Side (Dallas), 324

West Side (Detroit), 228–29

West Virginia, 370

Wheaton, Md., 343, 344

Wheeling, W. Va., 52

White, Theodore, 268, 270

White Citizens’ Councils, 91–92, 97, 99, 100

white flight, 31, 37, 357, 362

White House (venue), 70, 73, 77, 136, 186, 191, 251, 252, 273, 281, 320, 329, 347–51, 372

whites

Black Power feared by, 214

as civil rights activists, 152–53

and election of 1952, 35

and election of 1960, 69

and election of 1964, 170

and election of 1968, 384

and election of 1972, 384

fear of civil rights–related violence among, 231, 281

in Jim Crow system, 82–84, 89

lukewarm support for civil rights by, 167

racial violence instigated by, 12, 20, 31–32, 82, 85, 92, 97, 113–16, 119, 129–30, 132–33, 150, 154, 156, 216–17, 280–81, 336

and real estate market, 30–31

segregation supported by, 10–12, 20, 91–93, 101

and suburbanization, 30, 281–82, 362, 377, 389–90

support for George Wallace by, 120, 149–50, 267–68, 282, 289, 298–99, 302, 359, 377

Whittier College, 55

“whiz kids,” 179

Wilkins, Roger, 127

Wilkins, Roy, 128, 214

Williams, Hosea, 188–89

Wilson, Woodrow, 141, 249

Winona, Miss., 129–30

Wisconsin, 28, 55–56, 148–49, 278

Women’s Political Council, 92

women’s rights, 159–60, 163–64. see also Griswold v. Connecticut; Poe v. Ullman; Roe v. Wade; Title VII of Civil Rights Act.

Woodstock Festival, 318

Woolworth’s, 102–3

World Bank, 48

World Trade Center (New York City), 348

World War I, 5, 28, 249

World War II, xi, 17–22, 28, 29, 32–33, 43–49, 54, 58, 66, 71, 75, 78, 91, 238, 239, 243, 249

Yale Law School, 193

Yale University, 34, 153, 154, 226, 320, 353

Yalta Conference, 49

Yarborough, Ralph, 190, 197

Young, Andrew, 186, 212, 215, 280

Young Businessmen’s Club of Montgomery, 190

Young Republicans, 147

Zhou Enlai, 372–73