Chronicles of a Two-Front War: Civil Rights and Vietnam in the African American Press

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277 Abernathy, Ralph, 176, 243n. 16 African American Church, The: African Methodist Episcopal Church, 4–5; Ebenezer Baptist Church, 119–20; General Baptist Convention of North Carolina, 177; Northern Baptist Convention, 104; referendum on war by black clergy, 174 African American press, 38, 45–49, 52–57, 59, 62–63, 66, 68–70, 78, 87, 92, 126, 140, 144, 174, 185–92, 197–98, 201–4, 209, 213: competition for talent, 8–9, 219n. 19; correspondents in Vietnam, 8–12; growing opposition to, 152, 180–81, 210–11, 213; history of, 4–5, 102, 215–16nn. 6, 8; improvisation of, 17; influence of, 4, 14–15, 116; interpretations, 43, 101, 206, 210–11, 214; LBJ, 7, 34, 125, 128–30, 132–35, 142, 146–54, 207, 212; and agenda compromised, 5–7, 210–12; Martin Luther King Jr., 79, 81, 83–84, 93, 95, 98, 100, 107, 111–12, 117–24; Nixon, 156–57, 159–63, 167, 170–73, 175, 178, 185; plagiarism , 16–17; social reform vs. the war, 18, 26–29, 31–32, 34–35, 37, 39–41, 44, 60, 74, 76, 164, 205, 207; two-front war, 23–24, 42, 186, 208; use of news services, 6, 15–16 African Methodist Episcopal Church, 4 Afro-American Unity Movement. See Alvin Harrison Agnew, Spiro, 157–58, 162, 170 Alabama, 10, 59–60, 70–71, 73–75, 79, 118, 129 Alexander, Clifford, 37–38, 46, 63 Ali, Muhammad, 55–59 Andersonville National Cemetery, 70 antiwar movement, 52–53, 56, 69, 136, 140, 143–44, 163, 173, 192: blacks and, 75, 93, 125, 174, 207, 212–13, 93, 222n. 62, 245n. 59; black press opposing war, 151–53, 163–65, 173–75, 178, 180, 212–13; King, 78, 80, 82–87, 95–97, 100–103, 106, 109, 111–13, 116–18, 121–24, 151; social reform vs. the war, 32, 41, 151, 163; Robert Moses in, 3–4, 75 Armed Services Committee, 34, 59 assassination of John F. Kennedy, 19–21, 128 Associated Negro Press (ANP), 15–16 Atlanta Daily World, 39, 127, 134, 156–57, 188, 204: draft, 46, 57, 59; Julian Bond, 47; King, 78, 111; Republican ideology, 43, 156, 185, 213; with Nixon ties, 157, 184–85; and pro-war, 162, 184–85, 204, 239n. 31; war coverage, 126 Atlanta Inquirer, 223n. 6 Baltimore Afro-American, 38, 52, 91, 117, 127, 133, 147, 160–61, 176, 197–99, 201– 2: antiwar, but supported LBJ, 38, 134–35, 142, 162, 177, 233n. 70, 239n. 32; black casualties, 66, 69–71; draft, 45, 48–50, 52, 56–59; King, 78–81, 83, 85, 96, 99, 111; Nixon, 157–58; racism and the war, 177; social reform vs. the war, 30, 32–34, 40, 60, 74, 86, 88, 165–66; and two-front war, 23, 34, 38, 40; war correspondents, 10, 14, 189, 193 Index 278 Index Barber, Perry, 134 Barnett, Claude, 15–16 “benign neglect,” 170–71, 179. See also Moynihan, Daniel Patrick Bennett, L. Howard, 197 Bennett, Lerone, Jr., 29, 118 Bevel, James, 79, 85, 95 Birmingham, AL, 70–71, 86, 111 black church. See African American church “Black Friday,” 59 black journalists in Vietnam, 8–12, 14, 102, 140, 189, 192–93, 217nn. 6, 8 Black Muslims. See Ali, Muhammad black nationalism, 108, 230n. 62 Black Panther, 6 Black Power, 36, 89–92, 99, 108, 137–38, 200–201, 213 black press. See African American press “Bloody Sunday,” 74–76, 230n. 57 Bond, Julian, 47–48, 51, 151. See also draft; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Booker, Simeon, 10–11, 92, 100, 128, 161 “Bootsie.” See Harrington, Oliver Wendell Boynton, Ernest, 16 Brooke, Sen. Edward, 104 Brooks, Fred, 54 Brown, H.“Rap,” 54 Brown, Joshua, 12 Browne, Don F., 196 Bunche, Ralph, 99–100 Bundy, William P., 146 burial denied black soldiers, 70–72 Califano, Joseph, 146 Calley, William, 176–77 Cambodian incursion, 172–73, 178 Camp Lejeune, violence at, 198–99 campus demonstrations, 172–74 Carmichael, Stokely, 49, 102, 117, 138: antiwar , 52, 54, 101, 110; Black Power, 89–90; draft policy, 52, 54; King, 90, 99; and abandonment of nonviolence, 90–92 Carswell, G. Harrold, 244n. 44 cartoonists, 12–13, 43, 140–41, 218n. 15 cartoons, 12–14, 218nn. 12, 15, 247n. 2 casualties, 10, 163, 211: black casualties, 10, 45, 60–67, 84, 107, 144, 174, 209, 211, 225n, 57; black press views, 45, 60–66, 107, 144, 203, 209–10, 213–14; black reaction to, 28, 60–61; causes of, 65–70; entitlement because...