Beside the Troubled Waters: A Black Doctor Remembers Life, Medicine, and Civil Rights in an Alabama Town

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Abernathy, Ralph D., 102, 124 abortion, 44, 69, 158n14 Adams, R. C., 87, 107–8 African Americans: diseases afflicting, 42, 63–64, 155n7, 158n9 Alabama A&M University, 3, 4, 33–36, 47, 78, 95, 101, 102, 104, 107, 113; and sitins of 1962, 86, 89, 92, 96, 108–9 Alabama Board of Medical Examiners, 2, 8, 136–40, 148–9 All God’s Dangers (Rosengarten), 3 AMA (American Medical Association), 5, 7, 74 anti-boycott law, 96 Barley, Howard, 104 Barrett, M. C., 90 Beals, Melba Pattillo, 3, 162n3 Beard, Robert, 31, 53, 60 Bell, Ezekiel, 86, 89, 96, 109, 114, 122; elected president of Community Service Committee, 90; and integration of Big Spring Park, 106–7; organizes workshops for student demonstrators, 97 Belle, James Major, Jr., 78, 121, 124, 127, 129, 147 Bibb, Robert C., 71, 154n8, 156n2, 159n19 Big Spring Park, 24, 55, 106–7, 123, 144 Billingsley, Orzelle 95, 115–16 Binford, Claxton, 11 Binford, Elmer, 90 Birmingham, AL, 5, 33, 34, 54, 57, 95, 98, 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 134, 145, 149; church bombing in, 119 Blackwell, Randolph T., 95–96, 97, 109, 113, 121, 160n11 Booker, Odell Pearson, 100 Bradford, Henry, 49 Bramm, Horace, 70 Brewton, John Anthony, 114, 116, 118 Brewton, Sidney Ann, 114 Brown v. Board of Education, 113 Brown, Dorothy, 41–42, 44, 115 Buell place, 2, 3, 15, 16, 28–29, 30 Burke, Waymon E., 8, 142, 144–5 Burwell, Elizabeth, 12–13 Burwell,Tom, 12–13 Caldwell, Edward, 97, 104 Calhoun Community College, 8, 57, 142, 144–45 Cameron, William B., 70, 71 Camp, Ephraim Elias, 70 Carter, R. A., 78 Carver, George Washington, 23, 24 Cashin, Joan, 48, 89, 100, 106, 108, 145; arrest and jailing of, during sit-ins, 103– 4, 161n19 Cashin, John L., Jr., 38, 89, 89n2, 90, 106, 134, 145; beating of, 74, 159n20; and sub-committee for psychological warfare , 90–91, 103; financial support of, for sit-ins, 91, 102 Cashin, John L., Sr., 36 Index 174 / Index Cashin, Sheryll, 103, 159n20 Cazort, Ralph, 41 Chambers, Mary, 33, 135 Chambers, Vivian, 54 Chandler, James E., 140, 164n13 churches (black), 3, 19, 25, 63, 64, 67, 144. See also Huntsville sit-ins: and black churches Civil Rights Act of 1964, 1, 121, 146 Clark, Lillard, 40 CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), 6, 89, 92, 95 Cotter, Clement P., 147 Councill School, 3, 4, 88, 144; and sit-ins of 1962, 86, 89, 92, 96, 97–98. See also Hereford, Sonnie Wellington III: and Councill School Councill, William Hooper, 3, 24 Curry, Dodson M., 165n6, 166n13 Crawford, Dwight, 98 Crump. E. Perry, 43–44 Dailey, Edna, 97 Dallas Mills, 28, 29 Davis, J. Mason, 95 Dean, Malcolm, 106 DeBerry, Dulcina, 29 Dickerson, Harold, 98 Dittmer, John, 146 Donalson, Latha M., 44–45, 50, 51, 52, 53, 61, 65, 70, 87, 139, 155n10, 155–56n11 Drake, Ann Quick, 33 Drake, Geneva. See Whatley, Geneva Drake Drake, Harold Fanning, 5, 31, 52–53, 67, 70, 74, 78, 87, 91, 121, 127, 147, 156– 57n2; death of, 124; sponsors Hereford for hospital staff privileges, 57; resuscitates patient Tommy Scruggs, 31, 154n8 Drake, Joseph Fanning, 34, 95 East Clinton Elementary School, 116, 118 Elam, Lloyd C., 7 Fearn, Helen, 20–21, 23, 31 Fearn, Henry, 20 Fearn, Willie, 17 Fields, James, 86 Fields, L. G., 36 Fifth Avenue Elementary School, 1, 115, 116, 117–18 Fisk University, 32, 33, 34, 37, 40, 43, 46, 47, 89 Freedom Riders, 89 GI Bill, 30, 32, 88 Gandhi, Mohandas, 96, 97 Gay, Otis, 64, 158n10 Graddick, Charles Allen, 132, 134 Greensboro, NC, 6, 95 Griffin, Joseph, 158n14 Grooms, H. H., 115–16, 118 Grote, Carl A., Sr., 57, 157n2 Hall, Marion, 53 Hall, Peter A., 95 Hall, Richard, 53 Halsey, Will, 108 Hammond, IN, 4, 48 Harper, Amanda, 24–25 Hereford, Annie (grandmother of SWH), 11–12 Hereford, Bettie (great-grandmother of SWH), 3, 12, 69 Hereford, Brenda (daughter of SWH), 75, 84 Hereford, Donna, 84 Hereford, Jannie Burwell (mother of SWH), 3, 13, 16, 26, 34, 36, 53, 79, 80, 84, 117; ancestry of, 12; marriage of, 14, 80 Harris, J. E., 90, 94, 106 Hereford, Kimela (daughter of SWH), 75, 84 Hereford, Lee Valerie (daughter of SWH), 75, 84, 103 Hereford, Linda (daughter of SWH), 75, 84 Hereford, Lytha (sister-in-law of SWH), 47, 53 Hereford, Martha (daughter of SWH), 75, 84, 85, 141, 164–65n14 Hereford, Martha Ann (wife of SWH), 56, 77, 78, 82, 84, 105...