And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi

Index

INDEX Abernathy, Reverend Ralph, 52,182 Africa: Moses in, 220 Agriculture, Department of, 88 Algebra Project, 221, 222 Allen, Louis, 58, 59, 63, 131 American Friends' Service Committee , 14-15,218 Americans for Democratic Action, 140 Ashley, Stephen, 66 II Assembly of Unrepresented People ," 214 Atlantic City. See Democratic National Convention of 1964 Bailey, John, 173 Baker, Ella, 19, 172; and Joseph Rauh, 181; and Martin Luther King, Jr., 222; in Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 146; and Moses, 27,177,221; and SNCC, 20-21,39 Baldwin, James, 138 Barnett, Ross, 83, 98 Barry, Marion, 21,131,211 Belafonte, Harry, 38, 43, 61,86 Bennett, Fay, 107, 142 Bennett, Myrtis, 66 Bevel, Reverend James, 52,77-78 Bikel, Theodore, 109 Black Belt Program, 200 Blackwell, Randolph, 96 Blackwell, Unita, 86-87 Block, Sam, 75-76,86,95,99,150 Blyth, John, 91 Bond, Julian, 21,24, 74 Boynton v. Virginia, 33 Braden, Anne, 141 Braden, Carl, 78-79,140-41 Branch, Taylor,56,61 Branton, Wiley, 77, 93-94, 98, 123, 133-34, 141 Bree, Germaine, 6 Britt, Travis, 43, 53 Brown, H. Rap, 209 Brown, Jerry, 153 285 286 Brown, Luvaghn, 76 Brownell, Herbert, 87 Brown v. Board ofEducation, 15 Bryant, Curtis C. (C.C.), 40, 44, 60, 65-66 Burton, Philip, 161 Cameron, John, 135 Campbell, Janie, 66 Camus, Albert, 70, 213; influence on ~oses,5-7,91,194 Carmichael, Stokely, 2, 214; and COFO, 162; and floaters, 212; leads Lowndes County Freedom Organization, 216; and ~oses, 162-63,211,212; questions nonviolence , 162; and whites in the movement, 125-26; and SNCC, 201 Carson, Clayborne, 134,201 Caston, Billy Jack, 51-53 Chaney, James, 157, 164, 166 CIA (Central Intelligence Agency): and the NSA, 196 CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations ),41 Citizens' Council, 28-29, 63, 84, 140, 164 Civil Rights Act: of 1957, 63, 108; of 1960,64, 108; of 1964, 146, 162, 189, 170;ofI965,215 Civil Rights Bill: Kennedy's, 108, 114 Civil Rights Commission, 87, 100 Cobb, Charles, 126 COFO (Council of Federated Organizations ), 109, 121, 123, 128-29, 207; and Aaron Henry, 166; and Allard Lowenstein, 126-28, 149; and college faculty, 150; divisions within, 203; in food distribution, 85; formation of, 77; and Freedom Day, 142; in Freedom Summer, 128-32, 135-36, 152,200; in Freedom Vote, 112, 117; legal action of, 167, 169-70; and Lyndon JohnINDEX son, 136; and ~FDP, 143; and Moses , 143, 148, 151,205,208; and National Council of Churches, 142-43; and National Lawyers Guild, 139; role of whites in, 12829 , 137,203; and SNCC, 90, 13435 , 147; and Stokely Carmichael, 162; v. Rainey, 165; and violence, 83, 161; weakening of, 201 Communism: and Carl Braden, 140-41; and Moses, 137-40,142; and National Sharecroppers' Fund, 142; and SCLC, 139; and SNCC, 78-79,139-40 Connally, John, 180 CORE (Congress of Racial Equality ), 21; and Freedom Rides, 3233 ; and March on Washington, 114; voter registration, 105. See also COFO Cox, Courtland, 184,201,210,214 Cox, William Harold, 48, 56 Curry, Connie, 23; on Moses, 218-19 Daniels, Price, 176 Delta Folk Music Festival, 109 Democratic National Convention of 1964,3,8,169-90; compromise proposal, 178-79, 188;Credentials Committee, 175, 176, 178; and Johnson, 176, 181-82; and MFDP, 144, 178-85; and Southern support, 175. See also MFDP Dennis, David, 77; and COFO meeting , 121; on Johnson, 136; on whites in movement, 152-53 Devine, Annie, 178 Diebold Group, The, 91 Diggs, Charles, 173, 176, 181 Diggs, Ivory, 66 Direct action: v. voter registration, 35-37,60,105-6 Doar, John, 55, 76, 87; and E. W. Steptoe, 57; and FBI, 64, 167, and Justice Department, 56; in Mississippi , 63; and Moses, 39,45,46- INDEX 47,49,89-90,101-3,106-7,15758 Donaldson, Ivanhoe, 85,118,209, 218 Dulles, Allen, 167 Dylan, Bob, 109 Eastland, James 0., 48 ELS (Emerson Literary Society), 11-12,92 Eubanks, Leotus, 66 Evans, Rowland, 210 Everett, George A., 98 Evers,~edgar,67, 108, 111, 157 "Eyes on the Prize," 222 Farmer, James, 33 FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation ), 39, 48, 125; death of Herbert Lee, 58; death of Lewis Allen, 59; and Freedom Summer, 167; investigation of MFDP, 195; Jimmy Travis shooting, 97-98; and John Doar, 106; and Ku Klux Klan, 166; and Moses, 49,89,152; and SNCC, 195; and voter registration ,64 FCC (Federal Communications...