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Eyes on the Prize

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by Juan Williams

Eckford, Elizabeth, 101–102, 113, 117, 122

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 33, 38, 102–103, 106, 112, 119, 135, 140, 147

  Ellington, Buford, 135

  Elliott, J. Robert, 173, 175

  Ellwanger, Joseph, 268–269

  English, Horace B., 24

  Ethridge, Tom, 44

  Evers, Charlie, 208, 225

  Evers, Darrell, 225

  Evers, Medgar, 46–47, 52, 208, 221–225, 241; and James Meredith, 218; as NAACP organizer, 207–208, 210, 212–213, 221, 222; Mississippi campaign against segregation, 218–221

  Evers, Myrlie, 46, 210, 220, 221, 222–224

  Fair Employment Practices Committee, 197

  Farmer, James, 144–146, 147, 148, 158

  Faubus, Orville, 93–94, 96–98, 100, 102–106, 112–113, 118, 286

  FBI, 179

  Federal Communications Commission, 219

  Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), 122, 123, 125, 127

  Fifteenth Amendment, 252

  Fine, Benjamin, 102

  Fletcher, Arthur, 21

  Florida, 2

  Forman, James, 167, 201, 230, 245, 253, 278

  Fourteenth Amendment, 9, 11, 23, 323

  Frankfurter, Felix, 4

  Freedom Democratic Party, 229, 232–233, 235, 241–244, 246, 248

  Freedom Rides and Riders, 125, 145–147, 170; in Albany, 167; in Birmingham, 179, 181; federal interference in, 155–156; to New Orleans from Washington, D.C., 148, 149, 151–160; trial of, 171

  Freedom Schools, 229–230

  Freedom Singers, 176–177

  Freedom Summer, 229–249

  Freedom Vote, 228, 229, 233

  Friend, Ed, 65

  Gaines, Lloyd Lionel, 14–15

  Gaines case, 14–15, 25

  Gandhi, Mahatma, 79

  Gandhi, Mohandas, 78, 122, 123, 144, 169

  Garland Fund, 9

  Gaston, A. G., 183, 190

  Gayles, W. A., 62, 81, 84

  Gebhart v. Belton, 31

  Georgia, 2. See also Albany GA/Albany Movement

  Givhan, Walter C., 38

  Goldwater, Barry, 235, 248, 254

  Goodman, Andrew, 230–232, 234–236, 238, 241

  Graham, Henry, 195

  Grant, Rufus, 173

  Gray, Fred, 67, 70, 77, 85, 87

  Gray, James, 170

  Gray, Victoria, 235, 244

  Green, Ernest, 106, 117–118, 122

  Greenberg, Jack, 24

  Griffin, Marvin, 65, 97, 172

  Guihard, Paul, 217

  Gunter, Ray, 217

  Guthridge, Amis, 94

  Guyot, Lawrence, 241, 242

  Hamer, Fannie Lou, 229, 234, 235, 241–242, 243–247, 249

  Hamilton, E. D., 165

  Hare, James, 254, 258

  Harris, James C., 175

  Hardy, John, 212

  Harlem riots, 287

  Hartsfield, William B., 143

  Harvard University Law School, 4–5

  Hawkins, Edwin, 115

  Hayden, Casey, 171

  Hayden, Tom, 136, 171

  Hayes, Curtis, 213

  Herman, Susan, 151

  Henry, Aaron, 211, 228, 235, 243, 244

  Heschel, Abraham, 279

  Hicks, James, 45, 48, 50, 52, 105

  Highlander Folk School, 64–66

  Hill, Oliver W., 9, 18

  Hodges, Luther, 112

  Hodgkin, Henry, 125

  Hood, James, 195

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 179, 230

  Horton, Myles, 64–65

  Houston, Charles, 1, 2–9, 16–19, 25, 31, 35; directs NAACP legal campaign, 10–17

  Houston, Mary Hamilton, 2–3

  Houston, William, 1–4, 5

  Howard University, 2–3, 5; law school, 4–5, 7, 9, 10, 31

  Huckaby, Elizabeth, 113

  Hughes, Langston, 24

  Huie, William Bradford, 42, 43

  Humphrey, Hubert, 234, 235, 242, 248, 257

  Hurley, Ruby, 165, 209

  Huxman, Walker, 24

  Indritz, Phineas, 18

  intermarriage, 18–19

  Interstate Commerce Commission, 160, 165

  Jackson, Jimmy Lee, 265,267,271,275

  Javits, Jacob, 261

  Jemison, T. J., 60–61, 78, 89

  Jenkins, W. A., Jr., 184

  Jet magazine, 48, 49

  Jim Crow concept, 10, 12–13

  Johns, Barbara Rose, 25–27, 63

  Johns, Vernon, 27, 62, 72

  Johnson, Andrew, 8

  Johnson, Bernice, 164, 165, 176–177, 178

  Johnson, Frank M., 273, 275, 279

  Johnson, George Marion, 18

  Johnson, James, 93, 94, 100

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 226, 231, 232, 233, 235, 242, 244, 248, 257, 277; on Ku Klux Klan, 284; and the march to Montgomery, 275, 278; and voting rights, 253–254, 258, 262, 264, 267, 274, 278, 285; war on poverty, 287

  Johnson, Mordecai, 7

  Johnson, Paul, 234

  Jones, Charles, 167

  Jones, Curtis, 39, 41–42, 43, 45

  Jordan, Vernon, 165

  Karam, James, 105

  Kasen, Allen, 154

  Katzenbach, Nicholas, 217, 253, 257

  Kelley, Asa, 168, 172, 175

  Kennedy, John F., 135, 142, 225, 226; and Albany Movement, 172, 173, 179; and Birmingham confrontation, 188, 191, 194; and civil rights, 142, 143, 147, 160, 183, 195, 198, 226; and Freedom Rides, 148–149, 151, 158, 181; and James Meredith, 216, 219; and the march on Washington, DC, 198; and school desegregation, 140

  Kennedy, Robert, 143, 145, 146; and Albany Movement, 172; and Birmingham confrontation, 190, 194; and Freedom Rides, 148–149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159–160; and James Meredith, 215–216

  Kilpatrick, James Jackson, 28

  King, A. D., 184, 194

  King, C. B., 175

  King, Coretta Scott, 72, 85, 142, 171, 186, 262

  King, Edwin, 228, 235

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 27, 57, 89, 244, 270; and Albany Movement, 168–169, 170–173, 175, 178; and Birmingham confrontation, 181, 182, 183, 184, 187–189, 193–194; and civil rights bill, 195; and Freedom Rides, 145–146; “I Have a Dream” speech, 203–205; and the march to Montgomery, 269, 273–274, 275, 279, 283; and the march on Washington, 201; and the Montgomery bus boycott, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 81, 85, 87; nonviolence philosophy, 79, 87, 89, 122, 123, 125, 157, 158, 160, 168, 174, 187; plot to assassinate, 282; and SCLC, 89, 140; and sit-in movement, 136, 140; and voting rights in Alabama, 255, 258, 259, 260, 261–264, 265, 285

  King, Martin Luther, Sr., 89, 140, 143

  King, Slater, 167, 168, 177

  Kluger, Richard, 33

  Ku Klux Klan, 38–39, 77, 79, 81, 142, 182, 194, 284

  Lafayette, Bernard, 154

  Laprad, Paul, 133

  Larson, Cloyte Murdock, 48

  Laursen, Per, 171

  Lawson, James, 79, 122, 137

  Lee, Bernard, 189

  Lee, Cager, 265

  Lee, George, 209, 211

  Lee, George W., 39

  Lee, Herbert, 212

  Leonard, Frederick, 153, 159

  Lewis, John, 65, 122, 126, 136, 139, 148, 151, 153, 200–201, 229, 267–269, 282, 283

  Lewis, Rufus, 73

  Lillard, Leo, 121

  literacy tests for voting eligibility, 252, 268

  Little Rock, AR, 92–93, 104, 119; Phase Program, 93, 94, 95

  Little Rock Nine, 97, 100, 103–107, 112, 114–118

  Little Rock Private School Corporation, 118

  Liuzzo, Viola, 284

  Lomax, Louis, 136, 169, 179

  Long Shadow of Little Rock, The, 115

  Looby, Z. Alexander, 133, 138

  Lorch, Grace, 102

  Lovett, Edward P., 7, 18

  Lowenstein, Allard, 228

  Lowery, Joseph E., 284

  Lucy, Autherine, 147

  lynchings, 38–39, 44

  McCain, Franklin,
127

  McDew, Chuck, 213

  McLaurin, John/McLaurin case, 17, 32, 217

  McNair, Denise, 202

  McNeil, Joseph, 127

  Malcolm X, 262, 287

  Malone, Vivian, 195

  Mann, Floyd, 152–153, 155

  Mann, Woodrow, 106

  march on Washington, 195, 198–202

  March on Washington Committee, 198

  march to Montgomery, 267–269, 273–274, 275, 277, 278, 279, 282, 283, 287

  Margold, Nathan Ross/Margold Report, 9, 10

  Marshall, Burke, 149, 157, 171, 173, 179, 182, 191, 193, 255, 258, 275

  Marshall, Thurgood, 7–8, 11, 14, 18, 21, 23; and Brown v. Board of Education, 29–34; and doll test, 20; graduate school desegregation campaign, 16–17; and James Meredith, 213–214; and Little Rock crisis, 99, 103, 105; in NAACP, 15, 95

  Martin, Louis, 142, 143, 198

  Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, 122

  Men of Montgomery, 87

  Meredith, 183, 213–218, 241

  Meyers, James, 110

  Mickum, George, 33

  Milam, J. W., 42–43, 44–45, 48, 50, 51, 52, 54

  Miller, Francis, 106

  Miller, John E., 95

  Miller, Orloff, 274, 276–277

  Ministerial Alliance, 167

  Mississippi, 2, 49, 54, 207; Freedom Summer in, 178; Ku Klux Klan activities in, 38–39; NAACP activities in, 209, 211–212, 214–219, 221, 226; segregation in, 41, 44; Sovereignty Commission, 211; voter registration in, 39; civil rights efforts in, 214

  Mississippi Democratic Party, 233–234, 241, 242–243, 247, 248

  Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. See Freedom Democratic Party

  Mitchell, Clarence, 172, 253, 254, 257

  Mitchell, Oscar, 143

  Mondale, Walter, 242, 243

  Montgomery, AL: bus boycott, 57, 61, 62, 70–89, 122, 157, 283; martial law in, 155, 158

  Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), 73, 76, 77, 78–79, 81, 85

  Moody, Anne, 37, 56

  Moore, Angie, 46, 211

  Morgan, Irene/Morgan case, 145

  Morgan, Juliette, 79

  Moses, Robert Parris, 209, 210, 211, 228, 229, 233, 243, 244, 245

  Mothers’ League of Little Rock Central High, 97, 113

  Motley, Constance Baker, 213, 218

  Moton, Leroy, 282, 284

  Moton High School strike, 25–27

  Murray, Donald Gaines, 11

  Nabrit, James, 5, 17–18, 31

  Nash, Diane, 65, 122, 123, 129, 132, 133, 136, 138, 149; and SNCC, 146

  Nashville Student Movement, 126

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 2, 24, 33, 136, 160, 179; and bus boycotts, 63, 74, 79; and civil rights bill, 195; founding of, 46–47; legal campaign, 9, 10–17; Legal Defense Fund, 16, 18, 19, 21, 27, 35, 95, 232; Legal Redress Committee, 94; and Little Rock crisis, 94–95, 96, 97, 108; in Mississippi, 209, 211–212, 214–218, 219, 221, 226; racial attack fund, 44; school desegregation campaign, 18–19, 38; and sit-ins, 132; and SNCC, 165, 167; study of education in the South, 9; voter registration efforts, 212–213, 225–226, 228, 253; Youth Council chapters, 122, 164, 165

  National Conference of Christians and Jews, 125

  National Guard: Alabama, 279; Arkansas (Little Rock), 102, 103, 106, 112, 113; Mississippi, 216

  National States Rights Party, 230

  Negro Voters League, 167

  Nixon, Edgar Daniel, 62, 63, 67, 69, 72, 73, 74, 79, 81, 85

  Nixon, Richard, 135, 140, 142, 143

  Nonviolent High School, 213

  nonviolent resistance, 79, 85, 89, 122, 123, 142, 212, 287. See also pacifism

  O’Boyle, Patrick, 201

  Olsen, Clark, 275, 276–277

  Owens, Webb, 212

  pacifism, 79, 122. See also nonviolent resistance

  Page Marion, 169, 170, 179

  Parks, Frank, 77, 85

  Parks, Rosa, 63, 64, 66–67, 70, 76, 88, 283, 285

  Patterson, John, 140, 148, 151–152, 155, 157

  Patton, Alan, 35

  Peck, James, 148, 149

  Phipps, Mamie, 23

  Plessy v. Ferguson, 2, 9, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 32. See also “separate but equal” doctrine

  poll taxes, 285

  Pound, Roscoe, 4

  Powell, Adam Clayton, 132

  President’s Council on Fair Employment Practices, 15

  Price, Cecil, 231, 235

  Pritchett, Laurie, 167, 168, 170–172, 174, 175, 178, 179

  Project “C” (confrontation). See Birmingham, AL, confrontation in

  Project Head Start, 248

  Quarterman, Ola Mae, 171

  Quinn, Chuck, 270

  Rainey, L. A., 231

  Rains, Craig, 113, 117

  Randolph, A. Philip, 197–198, 200, 201, 283

  Rauh, Joe, 193, 233, 235, 241, 243, 244, 257

  Ray, Gloria, 115, 116

  Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 163

  Reagon, Cordell, 165, 178

  Rebel Club, 89

  Reeb, James, 274, 276–277

  Reed, Murray O., 97, 99

  Reed, Stanley, 33

  Reed, Willie, 48

  Reedy, George, 264

  Reese, Frederick, 260

  Reston, James, 34

  Reuther, Walter, 235

  Rice, Thomas “Daddy,” 10

  Richmond, David, 127

  Robertson, Carole, 202

  Robinson, Bernice, 65

  Robinson, Jackie, 140

  Robinson, Jo Ann, 61–62, 63, 66, 69, 70–71, 78, 88

  Robinson, Reginald, 212, 245

  Robinson, Spottswood, 14–15, 25, 27

  Rockefeller, Winthrop, 96, 100

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 115

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 197

  Russell, Richard, 138, 172

  Rustin, Bayard, 123, 125, 198–199, 201–202, 233

  Sadler, Lew, 54–55

  Salter, John, 218

  Samples, Sue, 173

  Schurz, Carl, 8

  Schweid, Bernie, 132, 135, 139

  Schwerner, Michael, 230–232, 234–236, 238, 241

  Schwerner, Rita, 230–231, 242

  segregation: bus, 63; defined, 20; effect of, on children, 20–21; elementary school, 19–20; graduate school, 18–20, 24–25; lunch counter, 126; psychological consequences of, 21, 23, 32; public facilities, 11, 15, 174, 179; school, 11, 13–17. See also Little Rock Nine; Meredith, James

  Seigenthaler, John, 151–152, 154

  Sellers, Clyde, 77, 79, 85

  Selma to Montgomery march. See march to Montgomery

  “separate but equal” doctrine, 9, 12, 15, 16, 21, 32; in Brown v. Board of Education, 24–25, 33–34; constitutionality of, 18–19

  Shackne, Robert, 149

  Sharpe, C. Melvin, 18

  Shaw, J. W., 52

  Shelton, Robert, 194

  Sherrod, Charles, 165, 167, 171, 173, 174

  Shriver, Sargent, 142

  Shuttlesworth, Fred, 127, 158, 179, 181, 182, 183, 191

  Siegmund-Schultze, Friedrich, 125

  Simmons, William, 211, 226, 233

  Simpkins, George, 127

  Sit-in movement, 136, 138, 140, 211, 220: at bus stations, 133; at department stores, 135; at lunch counters, 126–129, 132–133, 213

  Smiley, Glenn, 79, 123, 125

  Smith, Frank, 215

  Smith, Kelly Miller, 126

  Smith, Lamar, 39

  Smitherman, Joseph, 255, 260, 265, 272, 273, 278, 286

  Smolin, Martin, 129

  Smyer, Sidney, 181

  Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 89, 122, 137, 164, 182, 183; in Birmingham, 184, 190, 194; and civil rights bill, 195; and the march to Montgomery, 269, 273; and sit-in movement, 136–137; voter registration efforts, 228, 260, 261, 268

  Southern Manifesto, 87

  Southern Regional Council, 198

  Speer,
Hugh W., 24

  Steptoe, E. W., 212

  Stevenson, Adlai, 143

  Stokes, Carl B., 286

  Storey, Moorfield, 47

  Stride Toward Freedom, 89

  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 137, 139, 160, 176, 232; and Albany Movement, 164–165, 169, 171, 174–175, 178; and civil rights bill, 195, 201; and the march to Montgomery, 269, 274; in Mississippi, 211, 212–213; and Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 232–233; and NAACP, 165, 167; and sit-in movement, 137, 220; voter registration efforts, 226, 228, 252–255, 258, 268

  Supreme Court decisions: on bus and bus station desegregation, 88, 147, 165; on school desegregation, 61, 92, 118. See also Brown v. Board of Education

  Sweatt, Herman/Sweatt case, 16, 32

  Talmadge, Herman, 34

  Tate, U. Simpson, 94, 95

  Texas, 92, 285

  Thomas, Jefferson, 116

  Thetford, William, 87

  Thomason, Mrs. Clyde A., 97

  Thompson, Allen C., 219, 229

  Thurmond, Strom, 286

  Till, Emmett, 37, 39, 41–43, 47, 48, 51–52, 56, 61, 122, 209

  Townsend, Vincent, 182

  Travis, Brenda, 213

  Truman, Harry S., 15

  Turner, Albert, 267

  Tuttle, Elbert P., 173

  Valeriani, Richard, 265, 270–271

  Vance, Cyrus, 217

  Vann, David, 184, 190, 191, 193

  Villet, Grey, 106

  Vinson, Fred M., 32, 33

  Virginia, 285

  Vivian, C. T., 264–265, 268, 278

  Voter Education Project, 160, 226

  Voting Rights Act, 282, 283, 285, 287

  Waddy, Joseph, 18

  Walker, Edwin A., 110, 114–115

  Walker, Wyatt, 168, 169–170, 181, 182, 186, 188

  Wallace, George, 183, 191, 194–195, 267, 273, 274, 275, 284–286; and voter registration in Alabama, 278, 279, 283

  Wallace, Mike, 112

  Waring, J. Waties, 21, 35

  Warren, Earl, 23, 33–34, 38

  Washington, Harold, 286

  Washington Bar Association, 5

  Washington, DC, march, 195, 198–202

  Watkins, Hollis, 213

  Watts riots, 287

  Weaver, Robert, 286

  Webb, Sheyann, 269, 273

  Welch, Paul, 106

  Wells, Sam, 173

  Wesley, Cynthia, 202

  West, Mrs. A. W., 78

  West, Ben, 138, 139

  White, Walter, 10, 35

  White Citizens Council (Montgomery, AL), 39, 77, 81, 85, 88

  Whitten, John C., 52

  Wilkins, Roy, 35, 41, 52, 136, 140, 267, 283

  Williams, Aubrey, 82

  Williams, Hosea, 269

  Wilson, Alex, 105

  Winstead, Arthur, 235

  Wofford, Harris, 135, 142

 

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