King, Yolanda “Yoki”
Klein, Herb
Kuhn, Clifford
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
labor camps, see prison farms and labor camps
labor unions
Lawson, Belford
Lawson, James
Lawson, Marjorie; Reeves’ rivalry with
Lee, Bernard; as King’s body man
Lee, George W.
Levison, Stanley
Lewis, Anthony
Lewis, John
Life
Lincoln, Abraham
Little, R. E.
Little Rock, Ark.
Lodge, Henry Cabot; pledge on Black cabinet member made by
Long, Carolyn
Los Angeles Sentinel
Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola)
lynchings
Mackay, James
Making of the President, 1960, The (White)
March on Washington
Marshall, Burke
Marshall, Thurgood
Martin, F. M.
Martin, Gertrude
Martin, Louis E.; Black elected officials mentored by; Black voter outreach by; Blue Bomb pamphlets and; Carter and; Conference on Constitutional Rights and; Dawson and; death of; FDR and; JFK’s assassination and; and JFK’s call to Coretta King; Johnson and; King’s assassination and; at King’s funeral; King’s imprisonment and; on King’s Reidsville experience; King’s sentencing and; and Lodge’s pledge of Black cabinet member; Nixon telegram proposal of; racism confronted by; RFK and; and RFK’s call to Mitchell; Shriver and; at University of Michigan; Wofford and; see also Civil Rights Section
Martin, Toni
Martin Luther King Day
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Mays, Benjamin
Meany, George
McCarthy, Eugene
McDonald, Dora
McGill, Ralph
McGovern, George
media; Black; King’s imprisonment condemned in
Metropolitan AME Church
Miami, Fla.
Michigan Chronicle
Ministers’ Alliance
Mitchell, Clarence
Mitchell, John
Mitchell, Oscar; decision reversal and release of King by; Hollowell’s call to; in King’s hearings; RFK’s call to; Stewart and
Montgomery bus boycott
Moore, Howard
Morehouse College
Morrow, Catherine
Morrow, E. Frederic; Black Man in the White House; Eisenhower and; Finch and; Forty Years a Guinea Pig; King and; Nixon and; Nixon’s presidential campaign and; Robinson and; White House staff appointment of
Moss, Otis, Jr.
Mount Moriah Baptist Church
Mount Zion Second Baptist Church
Mussolini, Benito
“My Dungeon Shook” (Baldwin)
NAACP; King’s sentencing and
Nash, Diane
Nash, Willie
Nation, The
National Conference on Constitutional Rights
National Guard
National Newspaper Publishers Association
National Urban League
Neely, Frank
New Deal
New Republic
New York Amsterdam News
New York, N.Y.; Harlem; National Conference on Constitutional Rights in
New York Post
New York Times, The
Nigeria
1984 (Orwell)
Niven, David
Nix, Robert
Nixon, Pat
Nixon, Richard; civil rights movement as viewed by; Coretta King visited by; early life of; Eisenhower and; Finch and; at JFK’s funeral; JFK’s relationship with; JFK’s surgery and; King on; King’s funeral and; King’s relationship with; Martin’s telegram proposal and; Mexico trip of; Morrow and; 1968 presidential campaign of; 1972 presidential campaign of; presidency of; segregation condemned by; Six Crises; southern strategy of; Watergate and
Nixon, Richard, 1960 presidential campaign of; Atlanta appearance; Black journalists and; Black voters and; civil rights and; debates with JFK; Eisenhower and; Election Day; Finch and; Harlem and; Howard University forum and; King and; King’s father and; King’s imprisonment and; and Lodge’s pledge of Black cabinet member; Morrow and; Nixon’s closing appeal in; Quinn Chapel invitation and; Republican National Committee and; Robinson and
Nixon Library
Northwestern University
Obama, Barack
O’Brien, Lawrence
O’Donnell, Ken
Orbert, Agnes “Blondean”
Orwell, George
Parchman Farm
Parks, Rosa
Paschal’s Restaurant
Patterson, John
Peace Corps
Person, Charles
Pittsburgh Courier, The
Politics of Injustice, The (Niven)
Poor People’s Campaign
Pope, Roslyn
Powell, Adam Clayton
presidential election of 1960; as close contest; Election Day; Electoral College count in; JFK’s victory in; King’s neutrality on; polling on; voter turnout for; see also Kennedy, John F., presidential campaign of; Nixon, Richard, 1960 presidential campaign of
presidential election of 1968
presidential election of 1972
presidential election of 1976
prison farms and labor camps; Atlanta Prison Farm; King sentenced to
Proctor, Sam
Pryce, Marilyn
Ramsay, Richard
Randolph, A. Philip
Reeves, Frank; King’s imprisonment and; Lawson’s rivalry with
Reidsville, Georgia State Prison in; guards at; King at; King’s release from; plot against King’s life in; prisoners’ notes to King in
Republican National Committee (RNC)
Republican Party, Republicans; in Atlanta; Blacks and; in DeKalb County; South and
Rich, Dick; charges against King dropped by
Rich’s department store; Crystal Bridge; Magnolia Room; Sam Nunn Federal Center at site of
Rich’s department store sit-in; arrests of protestors; imprisonment of protestors; King in; King’s arrest in; King’s court hearing and; King’s imprisonment following, see King, Martin Luther, Jr., imprisonment of; “leave the premises” trespassing charges in; Lonnie King in; planning of; release of protestors
Rickey, Branch
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Jackie
Robinson, Rachel
Rockefeller, Nelson
Rogers, Jewel
Rogers, William
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Martin and; New Deal of
Rush Church
Russell, Bob
Russell, Richard
Ruwe, Nick
Safire, William
Salinger, Pierre
Sam Nunn Federal Center
Saturday Review
Schlesinger, Arthur M.
Schley, Bobby
segregation and integration; Brown v. Board of Education; Democrats and; Hartsfield’s negotiations on; JFK’s administration and; Jim Crow; in Little Rock; of lunch counters; Nixon on; Nixon telegram proposal and; States’ Rights Council of Georgia and; Vandiver and; in workplace break rooms; see also civil rights movement; sit-ins
Seigenthaler, John
Selassie, Haile
Selma to Montgomery march
Semple, Cecil
Sengstacke, John
Shriver, Eunice Kennedy
Shriver, Maria
Shriver, Robert
Shriver, Sargent; Blue Bomb pamphlets and; Catholic faith of; Conference on Constitutional Rights and; JFK’s assassination and; and JFK’s call to Coretta King; in Johnson administration; Joseph Kennedy Sr. and; at King’s funeral; Martin and; Peace Corps and; presidential campaign of; RFK’s assassination and; Special Olympics and; Wofford and; in World War II; see also Civil Rights Secti
on
Siegel, Jacob
sit-ins; Atlanta newspapers on; Hartsfield’s negotiations on; Nixon on; at post office break room; at Rich’s department store, see Rich’s department store sit-in; at Terminal Station restaurant; trespassing law and; voter registration
Six Crises (Nixon)
Smith, Jack
Smith, Lillian; King’s driving of
Sorensen, Ted
South; Democrats in; Nixon’s strategy for; political realignment in; Republicans and
Southern California–Nevada Council of Churches
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Southern Regional Council
Soviet Union
Special Olympics
Spelman College
States’ Rights Council of Georgia
Stevenson, Adlai
Stewart, George; Mitchell and; RFK and
Stossel, Scott
Strange Fruit (Smith)
Strategy of Peace, The (Kennedy)
Stride Toward Freedom (King)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Sullivan, Herschelle
Supreme Court; Brown v. Board of Education
Talmadge, Herman
Taylor, Gardner
Temple University
Tenth Cavalry
Terminal Station restaurant
Till, Emmett
Time
Thoreau, Henry David
Thurman, Howard
Thurmond, Strom
Today
Trevor Arnett Library
Troutman, Bobby; Wofford and
Truman, Harry
Tubby, Roger
Tuck, Bennett
unions
United Nations
United Press International
University of Georgia
University of Michigan
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Vandiver, Betty
Vandiver, Ernest; JFK’s call to; King’s imprisonment and; RFK and; Stewart and
Vietnam War
Viva Zapata
voting rights and registration
Wagner, Robert F., Jr.
Walden, A. T.
Walker, Wyatt Tee
Wallace, George
Walsh, Lawrence
Ward, Horace
Wardlaw, John
Washington, Val
Washington Post, The
Watergate
Watters, Pat
Webb, James
“We Shall Overcome”
Wheat Street Baptist Church
White, Byron
White, Theodore
Whittier College
Wilkins, J. Ernest
Wilkins, Roy
Williams, Franklin
Williams, Samuel W.
Wilson, Norma June
Wilson, Woodrow
Wittenstein, Charles
Wofford, Clare
Wofford, Daniel
Wofford, Harris; Abram and; and appeal of King’s sentence; Blue Bomb pamphlets and; Conference on Constitutional Rights and; Dawson and; death of; Gandhi admired by; health care and; JFK’s assassination and; and JFK’s call to Coretta King; JFK’s meeting of; JFK’s meetings with King arranged by; King’s assassination and; at King’s funeral; King’s imprisonment and; King’s relationship with; King’s sentencing and; and Lodge’s pledge of Black cabinet member; Martin and; Obama and; Peace Corps and; recruited for JFK’s campaign; remarriage of; RFK and; and RFK’s call to Mitchell; Senate campaign of; Shriver and; Troutman and; Viva Zapata watched by; see also Civil Rights Section
Wofford, Susanne
Wonder, Stevie
work camps, see prison farms and labor camps
World War II; black soldiers in; Hollowell in; JFK in; Shriver in
Wright, Jeremiah
Young, Andrew
Young, A. S. “Doc”
Young, Whitney
Zinn, Howard
ALSO BY STEPHEN KENDRICK AND PAUL KENDRICK
Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union
Sarah’s Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick are the coauthors of Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union, named one of Kirkus Reviews’ best books of 2008, and Sarah’s Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America, designated one of the best nonfiction books of 2005 by The Christian Science Monitor. Their work has appeared in publications that include The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, USA Today, and American Heritage.
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CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
DEDICATION
EPIGRAPHS
PROLOGUE
“IN TROUBLE”
“YOU CAN’T LEAD FROM THE BACK”
DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19
DAY 2: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20
DAY 3: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21
DAY 4: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22
DAY 5: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23
DAY 6: MONDAY, OCTOBER 24
DAY 7: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25
DAY 8: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26
DAY 9: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27
TIME TO DETONATE
“IT WAS A SYMPHONY”
“THEY JUST ALL TURNED”
EPILOGUE: THE DUNGEON SHOOK
PHOTOGRAPHS
NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
ALSO BY STEPHEN KENDRICK AND PAUL KENDRICK
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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