After the Dream: Black and White Southerners since 1965

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Abernathy, Ralph, 4, 59, 62–63, 65, 74, 131, 136, 199, 202, 205 affirmative action in education, 41, 155, 196–97, 224, 242–43, 249, 253 in employment, 50, 76–77, 140–43, 162, 193–99, 224–32 passim, 238, 242–43, 249 impact of, 50, 196–97 limitations of, 232, 243 policies, 206, 249, 295 quotas, 209, 211–12, 214, 228, 230, 238–39, 245, 248, 253 resistance to, 7, 8, 188–98, 227, 236 white reaction to, 7, 8, 162, 173, 188, 197, 205, 209, 253 See also under individual presidential administrations African Americans apologies to, 273–75 economic conditions for, 46–57, 95–96, 128–29, 139–44, 156–59, 169, 188–98, 291–93 integration, attitudes toward, 1, 38, 83–85, 114–15, 124–27 passim, 144, 181, 198, 201–2, 217–21 passim, 254–55, 277, 298 interracial relationships, 283, 296, 298 migrations from North to South, 54, 129–30, 147–50, 185, 231, 240, 294–95 population in the South, 2, 27, 159 poverty, 2, 6, 12, 47, 54–69 passim, 138–39, 169, 273–99 prison, 296 religion, 297–98 segregation, attitudes toward, 1, 127, 181 unemployment, 6–7, 54–57, 74, 95–96, 144–59 passim, 187–98, 204–5, 232, 291–96 passim white intimidation of, 22, 31–35 passim, 38–41, 72–89 passim, 137–38, 165, 199, 256, 277, 285 white opinions of, 11–12, 21, 25–26, 56, 67, 86–87, 183 Alabama discrimination, 23–24, 164–65, 191 education, 29, 41, 81–96 passim, 102–4, 116, 150, 179, 219, 240–51 passim, 282 employment, 10, 50, 55, 63, 69, 74, 79, 144, 191–92, 230 higher education, 45–46, 154–55, 167, 183, 206, 221 Ku Klux Klan, 199, 283 NAACP, 9, 20, 41 poverty, 1, 55, 293 public accommodation, 15, 18, 20 public office, 29, 31, 69, 131, 138, 163, 171, 268, 275, 288 violence, 23–24, 45, 139, 199, 266–68 voting, 2, 4, 26–31, 70, 132–33, 163–67 passim, 211, 233–34, 256, 302 Albany, GA, 22, 135, 172, 182, 235, 300–302 Alexander, Kelly M., 21, 60, 124, 188 Alexander, Travistine, 100–101 Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, 6, 81–94 passim, 101, 103, 105 American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), 80, 141, 157 INDEX 394 • INDEX American Indians, 105, 241, 292 Arkansas discrimination, 18, 100, 193 education, 41, 99, 219, 259, 281 employment, 50, 52, 77, 79, 193 higher education, 155, 182, 224 public accommodation, 18 public office, 29, 193 voting, 252 Asian Americans, 241, 297 Atlanta, GA affirmative action, 50, 173, 231 discrimination, 19, 22, 55, 74, 140, 288 education, 37, 61, 91, 105, 178–79 employment, 50–60 passim, 74–80, 140–48 passim, 158, 173, 188–89, 194, 196, 288 NAACP, 74, 134 poverty, 55, 158, 187 public accommodation, 17–20, 22, 132, 142, 187 public office, 69, 131, 132, 172 violence, 60–61 voting, 15–16, 73, 134, 165 Atlanta Constitution, 18, 67, 92, 102, 132 atonement trials, 264–72 Ayers v. Fordice, 220–26 passim Bakke, Alan, 197 Banks v. Lockheed-Georgia, 78–79 Barker, Justin, 283, 285–86 Bayard, Rustin, 12, 166, 186 Bell, Mychal, 283–86 Bellamy, Tim, 274, 286–87 Bender, Rita Schwerner, 264–65 Birmingham, AL discrimination, 18, 23 education, 45, 84–92, 104, 106, 112–13, 115, 150, 178, 216 employment, 51, 56, 74, 161, 194, 196, 294 Ku Klux Klan, 199, 267 NAACP, 90, 194 poverty, 56 public accommodation, 4, 15, 18, 22, 23, 67, 135, 213, 245 public office, 5, 172–73, 277 violence, 14, 89, 135, 172, 199, 259, 267 voting, 30, 172, 173 Black Panther Party, 13, 131, 288, 303 black power, 12–13, 65, 70, 140–41 blacks. See African Americans Bond, Julian, 68, 71, 138, 188, 252, 270–71, 280 Brewer, Albert, 84, 90–92, 94, 104, 106 Brown v. Board of Education, 2, 84, 107, 153, 176, 201–2, 217–18, 242, 251 effect of, 181, 220, 242, 275, 279 NAACP and, 5, 188 noncompliance with, 34–41 passim white flight and, 179, 218, 226 Buckeye, LA, 207–9 Bush, George H. W. administration, 227, 230, 237–39 and affirmative action, 238–39 African American attitudes toward, 237–39, 271 appointment of African Americans, 238 record on civil rights, 237–39 white support for, 239 women and, 239 Bush, George W. administration, 250–53 and affirmative action...