A History of the Civil Rights Movement

Index

Abernathy, Ralph, 33, 34, 52, 53 Anderson, Marian, 45 Baker, Ella Josephine, 34, 38–39 Birmingham, Alabama, 43–45, 47, 55 “Black Codes,” 15–16 Black Panther Party, 50 Black Power, 50 Blair, Ezell, Jr., 35–36 Blake, James F., 30 Bloody Sunday, 49 bombings, 38, 40, 43, 47, 49, 50 Bond, Julian, 53 Boynton v. Virginia , 39–40 Bradley, Mamie Till, 27 Browder, Aurelia, 33 Browder v. Gayle , 33–34 Brown v. Board of Education , 24–26, 29 See also segregation Bryant, Carolyn and Roy, 27 Carmichael, Stokely, 50 Chaney, James, 48–49 Chisholm, Shirley, 52 civil disobedience, 27, 29–30, 31, 35, 44, 50 Civil Rights Act of 1866, 16 Civil Rights Act of 1875, 16–18 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 49, 52 Civil War, 12 , 14–15 See also slavery Collins, Addie Mae, 47

Colvin, Claudette, 30, 33 Confederate States of America, 14, 15 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 31, 40, 45, 47 De La Beckwith, Byron, 44 Du Bois, W. E. B., 21–22, 39 Evers, Medgar W., 44 Executive Order 8802, 23 Executive Order 9981, 24 Farmer, James L., 37, 40 Ferguson, John H., 19 Fifteenth Amendment, 16, 17 , 18 See also voting rights Fourteenth Amendment, 9, 16, 18–19, 24, 26, 33 Freedom Rides, 39, 40–41, 43 Freedom Summer, 47–49 Gayle, William, 30, 33 Goodman, Andy, 48–49 Gray, Fred, 32, 33 Hamer, Fannie Lou, 48 Hayes, George E. C., 25 Hayes, Rutherford B., 17 Hood, James, 42 Jackson, Jesse, 53 Jackson, Mahalia, 45 Jim Crow discrimination, 10, 12–13, 17–19, 20 , 21, 52 See also segregation

Johnson, Andrew, 15–16 Johnson, Lyndon B., 49, 51 Kennedy, John F., 40–41, 44, 45, 49 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 3 , 10, 27, 31, 34, 35, 39 , 43–44, 47 assassination of, 52, 53 and the “I Have a Dream” speech, 8 , 45–46 and the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), 32, 33 and the Selma march, 49, 51 Ku Klux Klan, 22, 40, 47 Langford, Charles, 32 League for Non-Violent Civil Disobedience Against Military Segregation, 23–24 Legal Defense Fund Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Lewis, John, 37, 38, 39, 40, 53 Lincoln, Abraham, 14, 15, 21 Looby, Alexander, 38 Lowery, Joseph, 34 Malcolm X, 50 Malone, Vivian, 42 , 51 (NAACP), 22, 24 See also National

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