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Index
ABC-TV
The Search in Mississippi
Adams, Victoria Gray
Adickes, Sandra
Africa, travel to
“Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around”
Alexander, Margaret Walker
Algebra Project
Allen, Elizabeth
Allen, Louis
Allen, Pamela (née Parker)
Alsop, Joseph
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)
Americans for the Preservation of the White Race
Ames, Adelbert
Amistad
antiwar movement
Arendt, Hannah
Armstrong, Neil
Association of Tenth Amendment Conservatives (ATAC)
Atlanta Constitution
Atlantic City:
Democratic National Convention in
Miss America Pageant in
urban deterioration of
authority, loss of respect for
Baker, Ella
Baldwin, James
Barnett, O. H.
Barnett, Ross
Barnette, Horace Doyle
Barry, Marion
Batesville, Mississippi
“Battle Hymn of the Republic, The”
Belafonte, Harry
Belfrage, Sally
Bender, Rita Schwerner,
see
Schwerner, Rita
Benita Sharpshooters
Bennett, Tony
Berkeley Free Speech Movement
Berle, Milton
Bernstein, Leonard
Bettelheim, Bruno
Bewitched
(TV)
Beymer, Richard
Bilbo, Theodore G.
Bingham, Hiram
Bingham, Steve
Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing in
Birth of a Nation
(film)
Black Codes
Black Power
Blackwell, Unita
Block, Sam
“Blowin’ in the Wind”
Bonanza
(TV)
Bond, Julian
Bowers, Sam Holloway
Brinkley, David
Brooks, Gary
Broonzy, “Big Bill”
Brown, Jess
Brownmiller, Susan
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Bruce, Lenny
Bryant. C.
Buck, Demetrius
Buckley, William F.
Burrage, Olen
California, Fair Housing Law in
Camus, Albert
Canton, Mississippi
Capote, Truman
Capps, Charlie
Carmichael, Stokeley
and Black Power
and Freedom Day
and Freedom Summer
nonviolence rejected by
in Parchman Farm
police attack on
and SNCC politics
and three missing men
and volunteer training
Carter, Gloria
Carter, Hodding III
Carter, Jimmy
Cash, Wilbur J.,
The Mind of the South
Catledge, Turner
Chancellor, John
Chaney, Ben:
brother missing
and brother’s activism
and brother’s burial
in later years
Chaney, Fannie Lee:
grandchild of
in later years
and murder trial
son missing
son’s body discovered
and son’s burial
Chaney, James:
arrest and release of
burial of
civil rights activism of
discovery of body
grave of
in memory of
missing,
see
three missing men
personal traits of
registering voters
Channing, Carol
Chávezésar
Chicago Seven
Chicago Tribune
Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi
Choctaw Reservation
churches:
bombed and burned
Committee of Concern for
media stories killed about
Citizens for Progress
Civil Rights Act (1964):
and Kennedy
Mississippi compliance with
passed by Senate
signing of
testing of
white backlash against
civil rights movement
activism in,
see specific agencies and individuals
beginnings of
and celebrities
and Communists
factions within
and hope
Informant X and Y infiltrating
in interstate travel
and legislation
local heroes of
nonviolence rejected in
Republican rejection of
resistance in Mississippi to
resistance in Washington to
school busing
school walkouts
sit-ins
slow progress of
unsolved cases
and violence
voting rights,
see
voting rights
white backlash against
Civil War, U.S.:
history rewritten on
Mississippi memories of
Pickett’s Charge
and Reconstruction
as War for Southern Independence
wounds opened from
Clark, Gloria
Clark, Ramsey
Clarksdale, Mississippi
Cleveland, Mississippi
Cliburn, Van
Cobb, Charlie
and three missing men
and Tillinghast
Cole, Junior
Cole, Mrs. Junior
Coles, Robert
Collins, Judy
Communists:
and lawsuits
r ed-baiting
“red diaper” babies
rumors of civil rights involvement
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Connally, John
Cooke, Sam
Cotton, MacArthur
Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)
and discovery of bodies
donations to
and Freedom Day
Jackson headquarters of
lawsuits initiated by
phone network of
threats and violence against
and three missing men
and voter registration
Cowan, Geoff
Cowan, Paul
Cowan, Polly
Cox, Harold
Cronkite, Walter
Cummings, Peter
Dahmer, Ellie
Dahmer, Vernon
Dallas Morning News
Davis, Jefferson
Davis, Sammy, Jr.
Delta blues
Delta Democrat-Times
Democracy Now
(TV)
Democratic National Convention (1964)
civil rights split of
congressional challenge to
Credentials Committee
Freedom Democrats’ arrival in
Freedom Democrats at
as Freedom Party goal
and Hamer
and Humphrey
and LBJ
lobbying
as turning point
two-seat compromise
Democratic National Convention (1968)
Democratic National Convention (1984)
Dennis, Dave
Dennis, Delmar
Devine, Annie
“Dixie”
“Dixiecrats”
Doar, John
Donaldson, Ivanhoe
Douglass, Frederick
Drew, Mississippi
Du Bois, W. E. B.
The Souls of Black Folk
Dulles, Allen
East.
Eastland, James
Edwards, Don
Edwards, Len
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act (2008)
Espy, Mike
Evers, Charles
Evers, Medgar
assassination of
funeral of
memorials for
Evers, Myrlie
Fanon, Frantz
Farmer, James
Faulkner, William
FBI:
arrests by
bodies discovered by
and burial site
and Communists
and Democratic Convention
and King
and the Klan
lack of response from
loss of respect for
and murder trial
search for missing men
and station wagon
and three missing men
wiretapping by
Fitzgerald, Ella
Foote, Shelby,
Jordan County
Ford, Henry
Forman, James
Fourth of July (1964)
Frank, Barney
Franklin, John Hope
Freedom Day, July 16, 1964
Freedom Democrats
arrival in Atlantic City
congressional challenge by
at Democratic Convention,
see
Democratic National Convention
demonstrations by
going home
hopes dashed
lobbying by
moral case of
obstacles against
as personification of democracy
popular support for
preparing for the convention
split by class
violence against
see also
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Freedom Election (1963)
Freedom Houses
schools in,
see
Freedom Schools
“Freedom Now”
Freedom Party,
see
Freedom Democrats; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Freedom Riders
Freedom Schools:
activities in
books collected for
call-and-response in
constructing
convention of
end of
folksingers in
national support for
“Non-Violent High”
opening of
planning for
reunion of
sites for
SNCC “Notes on Teaching in Mississippi”
students in
successes of
teachers for
threats to
“Freedom’s Comin’”
Freedom Songs
Freedom Summer:
accomplishments of
anniversaries of
culture clash of
donations to
end of
films about
first day of
gathering momentum of
legacy of
midcourse correction of
national awareness of
origins of
prelude to
preparations for
rage and resentment against
repercussions of
Ride for Justice (2004)
SNCC support of
volunteers for,
see
volunteers
writings about
“Freedom Train”
Free Southern Theater
Free Speech Movement
“Friends of Freedom in Mississippi”
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Garrett, Mrs. (host)
Genovese, Kitty
“Get on Board, Little Children”
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Giles, Oscar
Goldwater, Barry M.
and 1964 election
and Republican Convention
Goodman, Andrew:
arrest and release of
discovery of body
lawyer for family of
letters home
memorials for
missing,
see
three missing men
personal traits of
in training program
Goodman, Carolyn and Robert:
in later years
and murder trial
and search for their son
son missing
son’s body discovered
and son’s funeral
and son’s idealism
Goodman, Paul
“Go Tell It on the Mountain”
government, loss of respect for
Grant, Ulysses S.
Gray, Victoria
Greensboro, North Carolina
Greenville, Mississippi:
Freedom Day in
Freedom School in
hospitality in
Tillinghast in project office
Greenwood, Mississippi
arrests in
celebrities in
Freedom Day in
Freedom House in
King’s visit to
Peacemakers in
SNCC headquarters in
violence in
Gregory, Dick
and Democratic Convention
and three missing men
Griffin, Ida Ruth
Griffin, John H.,
Black Like Me
“Grim Reaper, The”
Guinea, SNCC trip to
Guyot, Lawrence
Hall, Prathia
Hamer, Fannie Lou
African trip
and communism
and congressional challenge
at Democratic Convention
and Freedom Party
and Freedom Summer
in later years
as local hero
on militancy
telling her story
and volunteers
Hamer, Pap
Harkey, Ira, Jr.
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem riots
Harmony, Mississippi
Harper’s
Harris, Jesse
Hartford Courant
Hattiesburg, Mississippi:
Fourth of July in
Freedom Day in
Freedom Schools in
library closed in
violence in
Hayden, Sandra “Casey”
Hayden, Tom
Hayes, Curtis
Heffner, Albert
Heffner family
Hefner, Hugh
Height, Dorothy
Heller, Joseph
Hellman, Lillian
Hendrix, Jimi
Henry, Aaron “Doc”

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