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The Wrong Side of Murder Creek

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by Bob Zellner


  Chaney, James 190, 247–252, 257, 277, 284, 285, 303

  Charles, Ray 268

  Chattanooga, Tennessee 107, 231

  Chavez, Cesar 277

  Chinese 255

  citizenship schools 104

  1964 Civil Rights Act 13, 216

  civil rights movement 10, 11, 39, 62, 67, 97, 104, 110, 119, 123, 142, 175, 218, 221, 276, 278, 290, 294, 317, 318

  and role of music 148

  and whites 11, 79, 99, 118, 123, 124, 141, 174, 254–267, 286, 297, 301, 305

  women in 110

  Civil War 19, 219, 256, 317

  Clark, Septima 104

  Cleaver, Kathleen 317

  Clyde, Ethel 306

  Cobb, Charlie 256

  Coffin, William Sloane 290

  COFO. See Council of Federated Organizations

  COINTELPRO 288–289, 294

  Cold War 74

  Collins, Joan 272

  Collins, Norma 175

  Collins, Virginia 300

  Collins, Walter 300, 313

  Communist Party 119

  communists 74, 76, 103, 107, 119, 180, 202, 214, 305, 306

  Communist Training School 103

  Confederate, Confederacy 75, 110, 253, 270, 310

  Congress of Racial Equality 89, 90, 146, 190, 223, 231, 242, 247, 248, 249, 255

  Connor, Eugene “Bull” 90, 215

  constitutional rights 68, 84, 87, 90, 95, 156, 181, 214

  Cook, Robert 289

  CORE. See Congress of Racial Equality

  Corwin, Norman 312

  Cotton, Dorothy 104

  Cotton, Momma 168

  1895 Cotton States and International Exposition 128

  Council of Federated Organizations 248, 249, 255, 257, 277

  Cox, Harold 180

  Cradle of the Confederacy 110

  Crane, John and Sylvia 306

  Culpepper, Sam 43

  Cumberland Plateau 103, 107, 111

  Cummings, Sue and Richard 307–311

  Curry, Connie 10, 13–14, 105, 114–118, 140, 143, 149, 244, 328, 340

  D

  Dahmer, Vernon 303

  Dairy Queen 108

  Dalli, Kathryn 339

  Danish folk schools 104

  Danville, Virginia 234–245, 284, 319

  Daphne, Alabama 33, 120–126

  Dauphin Way Methodist Church 44

  Davidson, Arlie B. 48–51, 66, 84

  Deacons for Defense and Justice 302, 316

  Deep South 9, 112, 116, 126, 140, 177, 212, 214, 262, 276, 290, 294, 307, 319

  Deep South Education and Research Associates 300

  Delchamps, Alfred 71, 78

  Democratic Party 96, 180, 256–267, 275–277, 286, 303, 312

  Demolay 40, 45

  Dennis, Dave 190, 320

  Dent, Tom 190

  Devlin, Sean 319–320

  Dewey, John 104

  Diamond, Dion 190–191, 205

  Dillard University 190

  Dios, Rose and John 340

  direct action 61, 131, 147, 151

  Dittmer, John 339

  Dixie, Alabama 22

  Dixie Chicks 118

  Dixiecrats 276

  Doar, John 92, 155, 248

  “Doc from Huntingdon” 71, 158, 165, 221

  Dohrn, Bernadine 337

  Dollard, John 48, 141

  Dombrowski, James 196, 214, 241, 300, 306

  Donaldson, Ivanhoe 234, 287

  Donovan, Maggie 317, 318, 330, 338, 339

  Dothan, Alabama 24

  Douglass, Frederick 48

  Du Bois, W. E. B. 48, 128

  Duke University 123, 216, 334

  Dulles, Allen 251

  Durr, Clifford 76, 80, 80–85, 92–94, 96, 114, 226–233, 337

  Durr, Lula 81

  Durr, Tilla 81

  Durr, Virginia 76, 77, 80–85, 92–93, 96, 104, 114, 217, 220, 221, 282, 306, 337

  Dylan, Bob 272–274

  E

  East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana 190–206

  East Brewton, Alabama 32, 37, 37–39, 38, 101, 121

  East Brewton Methodist Church 39

  Eastern Star 41

  Eastland Committee 306

  Eastland, James 180

  Eckert, Elizabeth 320

  Edwards, “King Tut” 37–39, 101

  Einsemann, Hermann 209

  Ellis, Townsend 48–51, 52, 54–60, 62–72, 73, 81–88, 90–96, 126, 221, 315, 327, P-15

  Emory University 13, 128

  Enfinger, Floyd 69, 75, 125, 129–131

  Epworth Methodist Church 129, 245

  Estes, Billie Sol 231

  Evers, Medgar 148, 206, 253, 264

  exceptionalism 287

  experiential learning 102

  F

  Farrakhan, Louis 262

  Faulkner, William 230

  FBI 92, 132, 155, 167, 168, 220, 248, 249, 269, 288, 302, 304

  Federal Communications Commission 93

  Fellowship of Reconciliation 74, 86

  First Baptist Church (Montgomery) 53, 56, 61–65, 96

  Fishman, Rose and Ralph 338

  Fiske, Daniel H. 339

  Fisk University 105

  Folsom, James E. “Big Jim” 212, 218, 219

  Forbes, Michael P-12

  Forman, Jim 118, 131, 133, 137–140, 146, 147, 149, 150, 154, 168, 169, 173–178, 207, 226, 234, 235, 236, 251, 254, 260, 269, 270, 286, 287, 288–289, 290, 292, 298, 299, 337, P-8

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford 151

  Fort Pillow massacre 151

  Fosl, Catherine 337

  Foss, Danny 240–242, 243, 287

  Foster, Autherine Lucy 43. See also Lucy, Autherine

  Foster, Grazia 43

  Frankenthaler, Helen 314

  Frazier, Franklin 136

  Freedom Curriculum 317, 318–321

  Freedom House 257

  Freedom Rides 61, 89–100, 109–110, 131, 147, 174, 186, 190, 209, 214, 231, 246, 277

  Freedom Schools 255, 256–257, 285

  Freedom Singers 234, 243, 272, 318

  Freedom Song 322

  Freedom Summer 246–287, 277, 291, 293

  Free Speech Movement 277

  Fundi 315

  G

  Gaiamo, Robert 290

  Gallion, MacDonald 10, 73, 75, 81, 103, 220

  Gandhi 195, 209

  Ganz, Marshall 277

  Garman, Betty 144

  Garner, C. C. 128–131, 332

  Garrett, Ivory 310

  Generation on Fire 338

  Georgia House of Representatives 288

  Gestapo 20

  Gidrey, Earlene 301

  Gillespie, Charlie 313

  Glisson, Susan 319

  Gober, Bertha 178, 234

  Goldwater, Barry 275

  Goodman, Andrew 247–252, 257, 277, 284, 303

  Graetz, Bob and Jeannie 93

  Grant, Joanne 213, 215, 278, 292, 315, 317, 337

  Gray, Duncan 230

  Gray, Fred D., Sr. 64, 97

  Gray, James 180

  The Great Depression 18, 22

  Greene County. Alabama 214

  Green, Edith 276

  Green, George 260, 261

  Greensboro, North Carolina 118, 214

  Greenville, Mississippi 253

  Greenwood, Mississippi 253–267

  Gregory, Jan 68

  Greyhound 89, 90, 91, 96, 155, 169, 209

  GROW Project 276, 290, 295–299, 300–313, 336

  Gulfcoast Pulpwood Associatio
n 290, 311, 313

  Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio Railroad 17

  Gumbs, Harriet 323

  Gumbs, Lance 323

  Guy, George 162

  Guyot, Lawrence 267, 339

  H

  Haber, Al 143

  Haile, Ben 322

  Halberstam, David 339

  Haley, Richard 190

  Hall, Blanton 178

  Hall, Gwendolyn Midlow 338

  Hamer, Fannie Lou 263, 276, 278, 301

  Hampton, John 339

  Hanson, Bill 242

  Hardy, Harvey 25, 96, 164, 309

  Hardy, J. J. 18, 22, 23

  Hardy, Rosetta 27

  Hardy, Ruby Rachael. See Zellner, Ruby Rachael Hardy

  Harper, Julia 65

  Harrington, Orange 302, 304

  Harvard University 48, 86, 87, 128, 129, 145, 245, 277, 280, 282, 283, 306, 317, 318

  Hattiesburg, Mississippi 255

  Hayden, Casey 141, 144, 149, 175, 178, 186, 244, 278, 339

  Hayden, Tom 141–143, 149, 175, 182, 183, 186, 244, 339

  Hayes, Curtis 155, 177, 256

  Haymarket Fund 307

  Head Start 301

  Head, William 49, 56–60, 63–72, 81–88, 91

  Helstein, Ralph 107

  Helstein, Toni 106

  Henley, Claude 92

  Henry, Aaron 256, 263, 264

  Hermann, Susan 109

  Heyman, John 306

  Higgson, Mike 313

  Higgs, William 169

  Highlander Center 106. See also Highlander Folk School

  Highlander Folk School 14, 101–111, 102, 106, 114, 115, 124, 135, 264, 299, 301

  Hildreth, Red 332

  Hill, Joe 300

  Hill, John 49–51, 56–60, 63–72, 81–88, 220, 221–224

  Hill, Lance 315, 337

  Hoffman, Abbie 262

  Holmes County, Mississippi 257

  Holy Cross Neighborhood Association 313

  homosexuality 119

  Hoover, J. Edgar 92, 168

  Horne, Lena 185, 268

  Horton, Aimee 103–107

  Horton, Charis 103

  Horton, Myles 101–109, 114, 299

  Horton, Thorsten 103

  Horton, Zilphia 103, 105

  Howard University 144, 190

  Hull House 104

  Humphrey, Hubert 276

  Huntingdon College 10, 11, 47, 48–60, 61–72, 74, 83, 84, 85–88, 90, 101, 115, 124, 141, 174, 219, 220–225, 233, 315, 334

  Huntingdon Five 10, 61–72, 81–88, 91, 96, 101

  Hurricane, Alabama 129

  Hurricane Katrina 313

  Hurst, E. H. 155

  I

  identity politics 277

  Illinois Central Railroad 175

  Imus, Don 279

  informers 288–289

  International Woodworkers of America 303

  Interstate Commerce Commission 89, 174, 179

  Irola, Judy 315, 334, 337

  Ishey, Herbert 303, 304, 308

  J

  Jackson, Jesse 217

  Jackson, Mississippi 231

  Jasper County, Mississippi 308

  Jay, Florida 17, 22

  Jenkins, Esau 105

  Jenkins, Tim 144–145

  Jews 255, 294, 329

  John Brown statute 236, 238

  Johnson, Frank M., Jr. 229

  Johnson, Glenda 44, 47

  Johnson, Lyndon B. 251, 252, 275–277

  Johnson, Paul 249–251

  Jolly, J. D. 303, 304

  Jones, Bob, Sr. 20, 22, 335, P-1

  Jones, Charles 145, 155, 159, 169, 178

  Jones County, Mississippi 308

  Jones, Jeff 337

  Jones, Marshall P-13

  Jones, Matthew 234, 317, 318, 320, P-13

  Jones, Willie Mae 179

  Jordan, Charles 309

  jubilee 122

  “The Judge, He Went Wild Over Me” 105

  K

  Katzenbach, Nicholas 251

  Kelly, Asa 181

  Kennedy, Jackie 146

  Kennedy, John F. 90, 91, 97, 99, 131, 179–181, 285

  Kennedy, Robert F. 90, 92, 96, 97, 99, 131, 180–181, 285

  Kerhonkson, New York 292

  King, Ed 134–135

  King, Reverend Ed 249, 256

  King, Lonnie 145

  King, Martin Luther, Jr. 17, 49–51, 54, 62–64, 77, 78, 96–99, 101, 103, 114, 119, 146, 181, 185, 195, 226, 277–279, 291, 320

  King, Mary 234, 236

  Kingston Springs, Tennessee 291

  Kinoy, Arthur 215

  Kisseloff, Jeff 338

  Klein, Joel 319

  Koeferl, John 313, 314

  Koeferl, Vicki 313

  Kolbenheyer, Cynthia 328

  Kombrink, Lisa 339

  Ku Klux Klan 11, 12, 17, 18, 20, 22–23, 38, 39, 42, 43, 48, 49, 50, 51, 57, 69, 71, 73, 80, 81, 84, 86, 87, 89, 92, 95, 97, 108, 109, 118, 125, 129, 130, 138, 144, 146, 151, 152, 161, 163, 165, 177, 225, 226, 228, 229, 233, 248, 249, 250, 252, 253, 254, 259, 262, 263, 268, 285, 288, 303, 304, 307, 308, 310, 312

  and politicians 95

  Kunstler, William 314, 338

  L

  Lafayette, Bernard 61, 95, 154, 320, P-13

  Lafayette, Kate P-13

  Lake Junaluska, North Carolina 125, 132, 220

  Lamont, Corliss 306

  Lamont, Margaret 306

  LaRosa, Roberta 340

  Laurel, Mississippi 290, 302, 307–311

  Laursen, Per 175–178, 182, 183, 212

  Lawless, Richard 340

  Lawson, James 99, 269

  Lee, Bernard 52, 175

  Lee, Herbert 150, 155, 156, 175, 177, 251

  Leflore County, Mississippi 253

  Leonard, Freddy 95

  The Lesson 130

  Lewis, John 53, 61, 95–96, 99, 147, 177, 273, 283, 291–292

  Liberty, Mississippi 150, 155, 177

  Lingo, Al 220, 224–229, 231, 232

  Litton Industries 303

  Livingston, Sonny Kyle 75, 126

  Long, Huey P. 38

  Long Island University/Southampton College 317, 327

  Long, Worth 291

  Lookout Mountain 109

  Louisville, Kentucky 77

  Lowenstein, Allard 255

  Lowery, Joseph 50

  Lowndes County, Alabama 140, 286

  Loxley, Alabama 23, 28, 30, 230

  Lucy, Autherine 42–43

  lynching 150, 164, 167, 279

  Lynd, Staughton 256

  Lyon, Danny 236, 338

  M

  Mabank, Texas 23

  Madison, Wisconsin 115

  Magnolia, Mississippi 156, 164, 165

  Malbis, Alabama 28

  Malcolm X 293, 297

  male chauvinism 143, 279

  Maney, Patrick 316

  Mann, Floyd 92, 96, 224–225, 229

  Mants, Bob 140

  Mao Zedong 104

  March on Washington 245

  Marcus, Henry 71, 72

  Marshall, Thurgood 180

  Martin, Marie and Steve 313

  Masonite 290, 302, 303, 304, 305, 307, 308, 312

  Masons 40, 153, 157

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology 317

  Massengale, Glenn 65

  Mathis, Johnny 268

  Mathison, John Ed 72

  McCain, E. G. 235, 242

  McCarty, M. O. 308–311, 312

  McColgan Brothers 151

  McComb Cotton M
ills 151

  McComb, Mississippi 139, 142, 149, 150–172, 177, 190, 207, 256, 319

  McDew, Chuck 155, 157–160, 169, 177, 186, 190–206, 241, 256, 273, 278, 328–329, 335, 339, P-4

  McGhee, Clarence (a.k.a.) 257

  McGhee, Hildreth 234–236, 243

  McGhee, Jake 257, 258

  McGhee, Laura 257, 258–259

  McGhee, Silas 254, 257, 258, 259–262

  McLeod, Fletcher 74, 129–131, 228, 332

  McLeod, Francis 83, 93, 227

  McLeod, Powers 83, 228

  Meredith, James 230, 252, 320

  Methodist Church 17, 18, 48, 83, 141, 221

  Alabama-West Florida Conference of 23, 73, 74, 83, 120, 125, 128, 132, 220

  progressive ministers in 127

  Methodist Student Movement 220

  Miles College 270

  Miller, Barney 242

  Miller, Dottie 214, 234, 236, 241, 242–243, 244. See also Zellner, Dottie

  Miller, Linda. See Miller-Zellner, Linda

  Miller, Sara 242

  Miller+Zellner Associates 328

  Miller-Zellner, Linda 317, 322, 327–328, 340, P-16

  Minnis, Jack 286, 301, 303, 308, 313, 337, P-10

  Mississippi 100, 112, 139, 148, 175, 181, 213, 246, 283, 286, 293

  Mississippi Delta 253, 255, 301

  Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party 255, 258, 275–277, 312

  Mississippi Human Relations Council 254

  Mississippi Sovereignty Commission 288

  Mississippi: The Closed Society 230

  Mister Charlie 191

  Mitford, Jessica 93, 97, 98

  Mizrahi, Roberto 336

  Mobile, Alabama 27–31, 39–47

  Mobile Bay 28, 120–123

  Money, Mississippi 150

  Monteagle, Tennessee 101, 106

  Montgomery Advertiser 69

  Montgomery, Alabama 48–60, 61–72, 73–88, 89–100, 109

  Montgomery Bus Boycott 10, 49, 53, 84, 109, 119, 320, 321

  Montgomery Civic Ballet 161

  Montgomery Improvement Association 49, 53, 78, 87, 219

  Montgomery, Lady 255

  Montgomery Little Theatre 55

  Moore, Amzie 148, 263, 264

  Moore, William 231, 246. See also William Moore march

  Morehouse University 140, 145

  Morgan, Camille 214

  Morgan, Charles “Chuck”, Jr. 214–216, 226–228

  Morse, Wayne 290

  Moses, Bob 13, 135, 139, 148, 150, 152, 154–155, 157–160, 169–170, 175, 177, 246, 256, 263, 320, 329

  Move On Mississippi 177

  Mt. Juliet, Tennessee 118

  Muhammad, Elijah 294

  Murder Creek 37

  Murphy High School 39, 43–47

  music 148, 179, 320

  Muslims 294

  Myrdal, Gunnar 48, 141

  N

  NAACP 10, 42, 49, 219, 223, 255, 339

  Nash, Diane 95, 99, 143, 145, 147, 169, 177, 273, 278, 320

  Nashville student movement 109

 

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