African Americans/blacks, 2, 3, 10, 237; debate (among whites) concerning the place of the black elite, 5; “exceptional” blacks, 5, 6, 16, 242n12; harsh treatment of educated and middle-class blacks, 17, 243n18; health care of, 270–71n77, 132, 273n20; “militant” black students, 17–18; “new” blacks, 4; oppression of, 2; paranoid white feelings toward, 249n89 Alderman, Sidney, 278n85 Alexander, Henry, 19–20 Alexander, Lamar, 207, 295n120 Alexander, Vance, 201–2, 203, 204 Alexander, Will, 13 Allen, Ivan, Jr., 27, 184 American Association of Theological Schools (AATS), 205 American Association of University Professors (AAUP), 64, 142–43, 205; resolution of in support of desegregation, 135 American Baptist Theological Seminary, 196 American Council on Education, 232 Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 45–46, 252n122 Amsel, Abram, 135 Anderson, Dillon, 304n212 anti-Communism, 3, 45, 57, 89, 116–17 Archie, William, 157, 178–79, 181, 184 Armsey, James A., 212–15 Arnall, Ellis, 28, 246n52, 250–51n108 Association of American Colleges, 22, 32 Association of American Law Schools (AALS), Special Commi ee on Racial Discrimination, 60–61, 69, 78, 79, 85, 90, 101, 160, 161, 256n16, 273n18, 298n152; move of to refuse membership to segregated universities, 131–32; sanctioning and accreditation power of over law schools, 102–3, 114, 270n69 Atlanta, 27–28, 105, 106, 246n51, 267n34, 281n139; and the “Appeal for Human Rights,” 178; black elite of, 29; and public school desegregation, 151, 157, 177, 181, 281n140, 289n31; racial turmoil in, 156–57, 159–60, 177–78, 181; white elite of, 105, 268n35 Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 157 Atlanta University, 33, 49 Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 170, 171, 172, 220, 222 Basse , John Spencer, 40, 64 Beach, Waldo, 39–40, 67, 148, 249nn93–94, 249n96, 258n42 Benton, Jack, 68, 74, 167, 200, 259n54, 285n189 Billups, Val, 229 Bird, F. M., 185 Blount, Roy, 208 Bonner Nuclear Laboratory, 171 Borders, William Holmes, 86 Bosley, Harold, 38, 249n93, 249–50n102 Bowden, Henry, 34, 85, 108, 158, 159, 160, 182, 183, 184, 186, 237, 282n151 Branch, Harlee, 183 Branscomb, Harvie, 11, 32, 37–38, 42, 47–48, 57–58, 59, 95, 96, 98, 99, 114, 140, 237, 242n1, 244–45n30, 253n131, 259n51, 261n72, 282n155, 283n160, 283n164, 293n87, 294n98; anger of toward Dean Nelson, 293n83; a empts to solve Vanderbilt University’s financial problems, 15–16; belief in change as critical to the success of the university, 15, 243n12; belief in the university’s role in the “American democratic ideal,” 15; belief of in white control of the desegregation process, 17–18, 244n20; and the changing legal status of Index Index 324 segregation, 73–74; as dean of the Duke University Divinity School, 13–14; and the desegregation of the Vanderbilt University School of Law, 101–4, 160–66, 284n175, 284n181; education of, 12; experiences of with the YMCA, 13, 16; and the integration of Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School, 74–76, 168–69; methods of dealing with the Vanderbilt University board concerning race relations, 20–22, 49, 71–72, 74–75; military service of, 13; moderate attitude of toward campus race relations, 12, 16, 24, 68–69; opinion of Donald Davidson, 261n68; opinion on segregated fraternities, 100–101; personality of, 11–12; problems of with the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), 69, 259n47; proposal to integrate Vanderbilt University’s Graduate School, 18–19, 69–70; response of to the Lawson sit-in, 196–203, 292n83, 293n86, 293n89, 295n115; ri of with the Vanderbilt University Board of Trustees, 200–201; strategy of helpfulness regarding black students and schools, 22–23; success of, 208–9; and Tennessee’s dual educational system, 260nn60–61; unease of with racial mixing, 16–17; and the University Center arrangement , 70–73 Brown, George R., 88–89, 170, 171–72, 221, 223, 224–25, 229, 232, 237, 254n148, 263n110, 304n218 Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 6, 7, 58, 68, 116–17, 173; opposition to, 94–99, 157; and southern politics, 124–26. See also specifically listed university reactions to Brownlee, William H., 279n106 Buhler, John, 287n14 Bullard, Daniel, 227 Bunche, Ralph, 49, 139, 253n133, 255–56n9 Burrows, Richard, 259n51 Bu on, Dick, 73 Cable, George Washington, 4–5 Cahn, Edmund, 78–79 Calkins, Robert, 19, 37 Candler, Asa G., 26, 85 Candler, Charles Howard, 85, 151, 152, 154, 158; a itudes of toward race, 85–86; death of, 155 Candler, Warren Akin, 26, 85, 263nn99–100 Candler School of Theology (Emory University ), 33, 68, 85; statement of on racial policies at Emory University, 152–53 Cannon, James...