Parting the Waters

by Taylor Branch

  Grand Ol’ Opry

  Granger, Lester

  Eisenhower’s meeting with

  Grant, Cary

  Grant, Charlie

  Grant, E. James

  Grant, Ulysses S.

  Grant, Ulysses S., III

  Grass Roots Leadership Conference

  Gray, Fred

  arrest of

  bus segregation suit and

  Colvin case and

  Davis’s trial and

  draft deferment of

  and King’s arrests and imprisonments

  King’s tax indictment and

  Lewis case and

  Montgomery bus boycott and

  New York Times libel case and

  Gray, Fred (cont.)

  Parks’s arrest and

  Parks’s conviction appealed by

  Gray, James

  Albany Movement criticized by

  background of

  Kennedys criticized by

  King’s imprisonments and

  Gray, William, Jr.

  Gray, William A.

  Great Awakening

  Great Britain:

  Ghana granted independence by

  King’s visit to

  Nigeria granted independence by

  Green, Prince, shooting of

  Greene, Dewey, Sr., shooting attack on

  Greene’s

  Greensboro College

  Greensboro sit-in

  Greenwood, Miss.

  arsonist attacks on SNCC office in

  police attacks in

  shootings in

  suspension of food relief in

  voter registration in

  Greenwood jail

  Gregg, Richard

  Gregory, Dick

  Birmingham campaign and

  in Birmingham youth march

  in Greenwood voter registration marches

  Grier, Mamie

  Griffin, Francis

  Griffin, Marvin

  Griswold, Erwin

  Grooms, Hobart

  Guevara, Che

  Guihard, Paul

  Gulf Oil

  Gunther Air Force Base

  Guthman, Ed

  Birmingham riots and

  Meredith’s enrollment at Ole Miss and

  Negro militancy and

  Guyot, Lawrence, arrest and beating of

  Haggerty, James

  Hailey, Foster

  Hale, Lloyd D.

  Hall, Blanton

  Hall, Grover, Jr.

  background of

  on Freedom Rides

  mass indictments denounced by

  Montgomery bus boycott and

  New York Times libel case and

  Hall, Gus

  Hall, Robert

  Halleck, Charles

  “Hallelujah Chorus,”

  Ham, curse of

  Hamer, Fannie Lou

  arrest and beating of

  Hamilton, William

  and Birmingham riots and bombings

  Hamilton College

  Handy, W. T., Jr.

  Hanes, Arthur

  Hank Ballard and the Midnighters

  Hannah, John

  Civil Rights Commission report on Mississippi and

  Greenwood voter registration and

  Hansberry, Lorraine

  Hansen, William:

  Freedom Walk of

  prison beating of

  Hanson, Clarence B.

  Harding, Vincent

  Harding, Warren G.

  Hardy, John:

  arrest and imprisonment of

  pistol-whipping of

  state trial of

  voter registration work of

  Harlem, N. Y., Communist International Show trials in

  Harlem Hospital

  Harlem Renaissance

  Harmann, Sue

  Harper & Brothers

  Harriman, W. Averell

  Harrington, Michael

  Harris, Don

  Harris, Herbert

  Harris, Jesse

  Harris, Louis

  Harris, McCree

  Harris, Richard

  Harris, Rutha

  Hartsfield, William

  and King’s arrest and imprisonment

  Harvard University

  Moses’s studies at

  1933 Freshman Dance of

  Hastie, William Henry

  Hatcher, Andrew

  Haughton, G. R.

  Hawkins, Donis

  Hayden, Casey

  Hayden, Tom

  in Albany Freedom Ride

  Hayes, Curtis

  arrest of

  voter registration and

  Hayes, Roland

  Haywood County, Tenn., voting rights violations in

  Hearst newspapers

  “Heed Their Rising Voices,”

  Hegel, G. W. F.

  Height, Dorothy

  Heilbron, Jerome

  Albany Movement and

  Baker County case and

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Henderson, J. Raymond

  Henderson, Thelton

  Henry, Aaron

  Henry the Navigator, Prince of Portugal

  Heraclitus

  Hereford, Sonnie W.

  Herndon, Angelo

  Hershey, Lewis B.

  “He’s a Rebel,”

  Hesburgh, Theodore

  “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands,”

  “He’s So Fine,”

  Heston, Charlton

  Higgins, Dewey

  student strikes and

  “High Hopes,”

  Highlander Folk School

  alleged Communist activities of

  citizenship-school program at

  FBI on

  raids on

  voter registration conference at

  High Point sit-in

  Hill, Claude

  Hill, Norman

  Hillman Hospital

  Hinds County Jail, freedom riders imprisoned in

  Hipp, Mrs. Logan A.

  Hiss, Alger

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hodgkin, Henry

  Hoffa, Jimmy

  Hollowell, Donald

  Holmes, D. A.:

  King-Jackson conflict and

  NBC elections and

  Holmes, Eleanor

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell

  Holmes County, Miss., voter registration in

  Holocaust

  Holt Street Baptist Church

  mass meetings at

  Holtzman, Elizabeth

  Holy Family Church

  Hooks, Benjamin

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  Albany Movement and

  antagonism toward King of

  Birmingham campaign and

  Birmingham church bombings and

  civil rights legislation and

  COINTELPRO operations authorized by

  on Communist infiltration of SCLC

  Du Bois’s Communist Party application and

  FBI investigation of Jones and

  FBI investigations of King and

  Freedom Rides and

  Haywood County case and

  J. F. Kennedy-Arvad affair and

  J. F. Kennedy-Rometsch affair and

  King’s criticisms of FBI and

  King’s private life revealed to

  Levison surveillance and

  March on Washington and

  Parker lynching and

  proposed prosecution of Levison and

  on Randolph’s Youth Marches

  R. Kennedy’s relationship with

  Hoover, J. Edgar (cont.)

  Rustin’s homosexuality and

  SCLC targeted by

  Sinatra-Mafia-Castro-mistress tangle and

  voter registration and

  White House channel rebuilt by

  wiretap prosecutions and

  Hope, Bob

  Hope, John

  Horace Mann High School

  Horne, Lena
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  Highlander raids and

  Young and

  Hotel John Marshall

  House of Representatives, U.S.

  Birmingham campaign and

  Budget Committee of

  Education and Labor Committee of

  Judiciary Committee of

  racial policy splits in

  Un-American Activities Committee of

  see also Congress, U.S.

  housing discrimination

  Houston Power and Light Company

  “How a Christian Overcomes Evil” (King)

  Howard, T. R. M.

  Howard University

  Law School of

  School of Religion of

  “How to Believe in a Good God in the Face of Glaring Evil” (King)

  Hudson, Rock

  Hughes, Genevieve

  Hughes, Howard

  Hughes, Langston

  Hughes, Matthew

  Hugo, Victor

  Humphrey, George M.

  Humphrey, Hubert

  1960 elections and

  Hungary, revolt against Soviet Union by

  Huntley, Chet

  “Huntley-Brinkley Report,”

  Huntsville, Ala., public school desegregation in

  Hurley, Ruby

  Hurst, E. H.:

  Lee murdered by

  voter registration and

  Hutchins, Robert M.

  Hutchinson Street Baptist Church

  “I Been ’Buked and I Been Scorned,”

  “I Can Paddle My Own Canoe” (Rockefeller)

  Ichuaway plantation

  “I Got Shoes,”

  “I Have a Dream” (King)

  I Hope Baptist Church, burning of

  Illinois Central Railroad

  “I’ll Overcome, Some Day” (Tindley)

  “I’m Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table,”

  Immigration and Naturalization Service

  “I’m on My Way to Freedom Land,”

  “I’m Pleased Although I’m Sad” (Rockefeller)

  Increasing Your Word Power

  India, King’s visit to

  India Afire (Wofford and Wofford)

  In Friendship

  Ingalls, Luther

  Ink for Jack protest

  In Place of Profit (Ward)

  “Integration Song, The,”

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

  International Rotary Convention

  interposition

  Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)

  bus desegregation rule of

  Iran-Contra investigation

  Isaiah

  Israel, Abner

  Israel, Eichmann tried in

  Israelites, Egyptian exodus of

  “It’s Safe to Murder Negroes in Montgomery” (Johns)

  “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me,”

  Jack, Homer

  Jackson, Emmanuel “Bo,”

  Jackson, Henry “Scoop,”

  Jackson, Jesse

  Jackson, J. H.

  King rebuked by

  King’s plans for NBC and

  March on Washington and

  Montgomery bus boycott and

  NAACP addressed by

  in NBC elections

  1960 elections and

  sit-ins denounced by

  Jackson, Mahalia

  Chicago rally performance of

  Freedom Villages and

  King’s March on Washington speech and

  March on Washington performance of

  NBC activities of

  Jackson, Miss.:

  Evers’s funeral in

  first Negro policeman hired in

  Freedom Rides in

  Jackson, Nettie Carter

  Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall,”

  Jackson airport, segregated rest rooms and lunch counters of

  Jackson Daily News

  Jackson Memorial Stadium, race rallies at

  Jackson movement

  boycotts of

  demands of

  Evers’s assassination and

  negotiations and

  settlement accepted by

  sit-ins of

  jail-in movement

  James, Earl:

  libel suit of

  Marshall’s correspondence with

  James, Esther

  James, Roy

  James, William

  Japanese Peace Treaty Conference

  Javits, Jacob

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jemison, D. V.

  Jemison, T. J.

  Montgomery bus boycott and

  NBC elections and

  Jenkins, Herbert

  Jenkins, Timothy

  on Jackson settlement

  King criticized by

  voter registration and

  Jenkins, William A.

  injunction against Birmingham campaign of

  Jeremiah X

  Jesus

  contradictory accounts of quotations ascribed to

  before and after crucifixion

  heavenly order awaited by

  King compared with

  preaching about

  “Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross,”

  Jet

  Jewel Sermons

  Jim Crow laws

  NAACP drive for legislation against

  Job, Book of

  John XXIII, Pope

  Johnny Reb’s

  Johns, Altona

  Johns, Altona Trent

  Johns, Barbara

  Johns’s relationship with

  schoool strike led by

  Johns, Robert

  Johns, Sallie Price

  Johns, Vernon

  Abernathy on

  Baltimore debacle of

  Bevel compared with

  business enterprises of

  congregants criticized by

  death of

  eccentricities of

  education of

  heritage of

  home life of

  lecture tours of

  M. L. King, Jr. compared with

  M. L. King, Jr.’s trial sermon at Dexter and

  M. L. King, Sr. compared with

  physical appearance of

  R. R. Moton High School strike and

  tracking down of

  trial sermon delivered by

  Johns, Vernon (cont.)

  victimization of

  Walker and

  Johns, Willie

  Johns Hopkins University

  Johnson, Andrew

  Johnson, Bernice

  Johnson, Frank, Jr.

  Johnson, James Weldon

  Johnson, June, arrest and beating of

  Johnson, Lady Bird

  Johnson, L. Warren “Gator,”

  acquittal of

  Albany Freedom Ride and

  Ware charged with assault of

  Ware shot by

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines

  Baker’s relationship with

  civil rights legislation and

  King’s meetings with

  March on Washington and

  presidential campaigns of

  vice-presidential campaign of

  Johnson, Mordecai

  Johns compared with

  Johnson, Paul

  Johnson, Tom

  Johnson C. Smith College

  John the Baptist, Saint

  Jones, Ann Norton

  Jones, Arthur

  Jones, Bobby

  Jones, C. C.

  Jones, Charles

  Albany Movement and

  arrest avoided by

  arrests and imprisonments of

  in Freedom Ride projects

  King criticized by

  voter registration and

  Jones, Clarence

  Albany Movement and

  on allegations against Levison

  alleged Communist infiltration of SCLC and

  Birmingham campaign and

  Birmingham c
hurch bombings and

  Evers’s assassination and

  FBI surveillance of

  “I Have a Dream” speech and

  Jackson movement and

  King as house guest of

  King’s Birmingham imprisonment and

  King’s book on Birmingham and

  King’s sexual affairs and

  “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and

  March on Washington and

  O’Dell and

  R. Kennedy’s meetings with

  Jones, David “Deacon,”

  Jones, E. S.

  Jones, Ray

  Jones, Walter B.

  Freedom Rides and

  Jordan, Clarence

  Juilliard School of Music

  justice:

  Amos on

  J. F. Kennedy on

  King on

  Justice Department, U.S.

  Albany Movement and

  alleged Communist infiltration of SCLC and

  Antitrust Division of

  Birmingham campaign and

  Birmingham church bombings and

  Birmingham riots and

  Campbell case and

  Civil Rights Commission report on Mississippi and

  Civil Rights Division of

  Criminal Division of

  desegregation of

  discriminatory hiring practices of

  Evers’s funeral and

  FBI investigations of Levison and

  Freedom Rides and

  Freedom Walks and

  Internal Security Division of

  J. F. Kennedy civil rights legislation and

  on King’s imprisonment

  Lee’s murder and

  Lewis’s March on Washington speech and

  lunch counter integration and

  Meredith’s enrollment at Ole Miss and

  Moses’s picketing of

  Parker lynching and

  prosecution of Levison proposed by

  R. Kennedy’s appointments to

  Shuttlesworth conviction and

  Tax Division of

  Terrell County church burnings and

  Valachi’s testimony and

  vigilance against O’Dell of

  voter registration and

  wiretap prosecutions of

  Kafka, Franz

  Kahn, Tom

  Kamath, M. K.

  Kansas City, Mo.:

  NBC convention in

  police stations picketed in

  Kansas City Call

  Kant, Immanuel

  Katzenbach, Nicholas

  Albany Nine case and

  Birmingham campaign and

  Birmingham riots and

  integration of University of Alabama and

  Meredith’s enrollment at Ole Miss and

  on R. Kennedy’s judicial appointments

  Kaunda, Kenneth

  Keats, John

  Keeler, Christine

  “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize,”

  Kefauver, Estes

  Keighton, Robert

  Kelley, Asa

  Albany Movement negotiations and

  injunction against Albany Movement and

  King’s imprisonments and

  Kennard, Clyde

  Kennedy, Caroline

  Kennedy, Cleo

  Kennedy, Edward

  Kennedy, Jacqueline

  Lincoln’s Birthday White House reception and

  Kennedy, John F.

  accomplishments in civil rights attributed to

  African policy of

  Albany Movement and

  alleged Communist infiltration of SCLC and