Race Harmony and Black Progress: Jack Woofter and the Interracial Cooperation Movement

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abbott, grace, 223 addams, Jane, 223 adjutant general’s office (ago), 66–67 african americans: and education, 10, 31–33, 34–35, 37–61, 77–79, 154–55, 184–86; and migration , 63–66, 68–72, 81, 115, 122, 130, 133, 138, 144; and segregation, 6, 8, 10, 20, 52, 57, 64, 83, 101, 102, 105, 128, 131, 147–49, 155, 164– 65, 170, 172, 176–77, 185–86, 217, 225, 260n61, 274n32 (see also commission on Interracial cooperation (cIc); interracial cooperation movement); and taxation, 9–10, 28, 32, 52, 74, 106–107, 120, 154, 163, 188, 209, 212, 215–18; and violence (see lynching) african methodist episcopal Zion (a.m.e.Z.) church, 131, 174 alderman, edwin a., 21, 153, 239 alexander, Hooper, 120, 122 alexander, Will W., 2, 5, 9, 11, 18, 79, 117, 123, 126, 168, 241, 246n18, 264n28, 271n81, 272n1, 277n9, 286n19; and antilynching legislation, 112, 127; and cIc, 80–112, 136, 140, 143–46, 153, 193, 197, 230; and “encyclopedia of the negro,” 228; and first national Interracial conference, 174–79; on Foreman, 180; on Frazier, 171–72, 178–79; historians on, 13–15; and International missionary council, 190, 233; on interracial cooperation, 233; and Jack Woofter’s career, 197, 199–200, 202–204, 208, 236, 238; and new deal agencies, 235; ovington on, 271n81; on radicalism, 88; on research on race, 153–57, 179–80, 181, 237, 273n3; and second national Interracialconference,222–23;onsegregation, 148, 150, 232; on shortcomings of white ministers , 193; and social science Research council , 181; on southern sheriffs, 193–94; younger liberals on, 236 allied supreme War council, 67 american association for the advancement of science, 43 american expeditionary Force (aeF), 66–67 american Federation of labor, 226, 282n92 american missionary association, 10, 75 american school, chicago, 17 american University, d.c., 62 ames, Jessie daniel, 2, 117, 235, 242, 286n19 anderson, mary, 223 anna t. Jeanes Foundation, 21, 23, 31, 32, 33, 64, 75, 84, 164 armstrong, samuel chapman, 36 arthur, george R.: and ymca, 224 associated negro Press, 174 association for the study of negro life and History (asnlH), 55, 198, 224 association of negro Industrial and secondary schools (anIss), 46–48 association of southern Women for the Prevention of lynching, 117, 242 athens, ga., 17, 31, 44, 66, 68, 74, 120, 131; black education in, 45; Jack Woofter’s study of black life in,23–27,38,40,41,44,64,71,74,180; lynchings near, 114, 120, 180; Woofter’s own life in, 18–21, 113–15, 165–66 Athens Banner-Herald, 201 athens colored High school, 45 athens Woman’s club, 18 atkins, charlie, lynching of, 128, 265n53 Atlanta Constitution, 30, 86, 122, 167, 201; on dorsey, 122; on ethel Woofter, 198–99; on Jack Woofter, 73, 167; and interracial cooperation, 136; on lynching, 123, 125–27, 130, 264n43 atlanta Plan of Inter-Racial cooperation, 92 atlanta school of social Work, 171, 177, 272n96, 272n2 atlanta University, 7, 23, 41, 134, 254n56 aycock, charles B., 239 ayres, leonard Porter, 66–67, 77, 255n13 Bailey, Thomas Pearce, 21 Baldwin, William H., Jr., 31, 32 Ballanta, n. g. J., 279n42 Baltimore Afro-American: on Jack Woofter, 167, 217; on lynching, 123; on “Woofterism,” 226 Barrow, david crenshaw, 2, 19, 23, 31; and Cooperation in Southern Communities, 107; on Jack Woofter, 23; and Negroes of Athens, Georgia, 249n32 Barrow county, ga., 139, 144 Index 317 318 | Index Bassett, John spencer, 28–29, 31, 238 Baylor University, 87 Beauchamp, W. B., 190 Bernard, luther lee, 23 Bethune, mary mcleod, 96, 224, 260n46 Bickett, Fannie yarborough, 91, 97, 260n51 Bickett, Thomas W., 89, 119, 132 Bingham, Hiram, III, 66 Bitting, samuel t., 74 Blackburn, Burr, 108 Blease, coleman, 31 Blue Ridge assembly, asheville, n. c., 83, 91, 113, 116, 140, 143, 258n8 Boas, Franz, 20–21, 71, 160, 175, 221, 270n62 Bond, Horace mann, 224, 268n22; on Frazier, 272n92 Bond, James, 94, 135, 144, 148, 169 Borah, William, 127 Boston University, 197 Bradley, Henry stiles, 29–31, 115 Bradley district academy, 45 Brascher, nahum, 174 Bratton, t. d., 88–89 Brewer, William m., 41–42 Brinton, david garrison, 21 Brittain, susie moore, 91 Brookings Institute, 198 Brooks, Robert Preston: influence on Jack Woofter at Uga, 19–20, 23–24, 154, 163; and Jack Woofter’s arrest, 203, 278n24, 278n30 Brotherhood of sleeping car Porters, 222 Brown, charlotte Hawkins, 8, 260n48; address at women’s interracial conference, 95–96; and cIc, 260n51; du Bois on, 173; Hancock on, 240; and...