Freedom's Pragmatist: Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights

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321 Index Abel, I. A., 216, 246 Abernathy, Ralph, 255, 259 Abram, Morris, 231 Abrams, Creighton, 215 Acheson, Dean, 102 Adams, John, 109, 111 Affirmative action, 117, 222–24 AFL-CIO, 113 Africa, 253–54 African Americans: desegregation, 51; Freedom Rides, 114; housing, 49–50 (see also Civil Rights Act [1968]); in LBJ’s childhood, 10–16; lynching, 36–40; poll tax, 40–41; New Deal projects, 42–43, 49; sit-ins, 103–4, 114; Texas NYA, 20–31; World War II, 50 Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), 49 Alaskan statehood, 102 Albany crisis, 128 Albert, Carl, 100, 250 Alexander, Clifford, 252 Alexander, Will, 44 Allen, Robert S., 90 Allred, James, 28 American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa, 253–54 Americans for Democratic Action, 186 Ames, Jessie Daniel, 40 Anderson, Clinton P., 61, 79, 107 Anderson, Glenn, 215 Anderson, Marion, 248 Anti-lynching campaign, 36–40 Aronson, Arnold, 124 Arthur, Chester, 112 Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (ASWPL), 38 Badger, Tony, 42 Bailey, Weldon, 194 Baker, Bobby, 115 Banks, W. R., 29 Barnett, Ross, 171 Bartley, Numan, 73 Bayh, Birch, 196 Belafonte, Harry, 206 Bennett, Tony, 206 Bernhard, Berl, 231–32 Beschloss, Michael, 5 Bethune, Mary McLeod, 20–21, 31–32, 49, 58 Bevel, Rev. James, 128, 210 Bilbo, Theodore G., 48, 62 Birmingham crisis, 121–22, 264 Black Panther Party, 226 Boggs, Hale, 188 Booker, Christopher, 7 Booker, Simeon, 148 Bornet, Vaughan Davis, 5 Boynton v. Virginia, 127 Branch, Mary, 27 Breathitt, Edward, Jr., 168 Brennan, William, 252 322 · Index Brewster, Daniel, 181 Brimmer, Andrew, 249, 252 Brooke, Edmund, 246 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 50 Brown, Edmund “Pat,” 215, 217, 218 Brown, H. Rap, 231 Brown decision, 80–82, 211 Brownell, Herbert, 88, 95 Brown II, 83 Bryant, Farris, 154, 157–58, 168 Bryant, Nick, 4, 114 Buchanan, James P., 32 Bunche, Ralph, 98 Burroughs, John, 107 Busby, Horace, 73, 133 Butler, Paul M., 89 Byrd, Harry F., Sr., 83–84 Califano, Joseph, 76, 214–17, 230, 240–41, 247, 257 Carmichael, Stokely, 226, 231, 234, 237, 254 Caro, Robert, 47, 60 Carter, Cliff, 140, 233 Carter, Jimmy, 169 Cater, Douglass, 100, 155 Cavanagh, Jerome P., 243 Chaney, James, 174, 177 Chicago Campaign, 224–28, 230 Chicago Freedom Movement, 225 Civilian Conservations Corps (CCC), 29 Civil Rights Act (1957), 3, 90–100, 196 Civil Rights Act (1960), 3, 102–6, 196 Civil Rights Act (1964), 2, 3, 118, 127, 196, 219, 255; implementation, 199, 239, 240; passage, 158–68; reaction to passage, 168–70, 193, 203, 208, 213; Title IV, 221–22 Civil Rights Act (1968), 259–60; and 1966 civil rights bill, 228–30 Civil Rights Commission, 105, 247 Clark, Jim, 201 Clark, Ramsay, 175, 182, 199, 217, 227, 244, 252 Clark, Tom C., 251 Clay, Henry, 95 Clayman, Jacob, 124 Clement, Frank, 168 Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam, 238 Clifford, Clark, 51 Clinton, Hillary, 1–3, 269 Cloture rule, 64–72, 79. See also Filibusters Cole, Nat King, 248 Coleman, James P., 252 Collins, LeRoy, 168, 199, 213, 217 Commission of Interracial Cooperation, 39, 44 Community Relations Service, 168, 199 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 21 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 104, 163, 237 Connolly, John, 74, 184, 188 Connolly, Tom, 40 Connor, Eugene “Bull,” 128 Coolidge, Calvin, 112 Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, 225 Corman, James, 246 Corson, John, 22–24 Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), 142, 172, 173, 186 Council of National Organizations, 50 Cronin, Thomas, 243 Cronkite, Walter, 10, 160 Daley, Richard, 221, 225, 227–28, 258 Dallek, Robert, 5 Davidson, Chandler, 209 Dawson, William Levi, 113 DeLoach, Cartha, 178, 187 Democratic National Convention, 185–86 Detroit riots, 243 Dirksen, Everett, 149, 165–67, 201, 230, 257 Dixiecrats, 52, 69, 150 Doar, John, 173, 179, 196, 199, 207 Douglas, Paul, 61, 79, 93–95 Douglas, William O., 252 Dray, Philip, 39 Dugger, Ronnie, 16 Duke, Joseph, 98 Dungan, Ralph, 136 Durr, Clifford, 19, 80 Durr, Virginia, 19, 21, 44, 80 Dyer, Leonidas C., 37 Index · 323 Eastland, James O., 51, 62, 76, 94, 110, 176, 188 Eaton, William, 208 Economic Opportunity Act, 180, 220 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 78, 81, 88, 89, 97, 101–2, 106 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 221 Ellington, Buford, 168, 176, 201–2 Elliot, O. H., 26–28 Ellison, Ralph, 268 Ervin, Sam, 105, 252 Evans, Rowland, 60, 97, 137 Evers, Charles, 142, 147, 172, 209, 260, 265, 268...