African American Jeremiad Rev: Appeals For Justice In America

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Index Abolitionism, 10, 13, 16–17, 19, 21, 23, 29–30, 34, 36–41, 43, 102, 104, 107, 137, 218 Africa, 23–24, 32, 66–67, 109, 123, 135, 138, 141, 150, 176, 178–79, 206. See also Pan-Africanism African American colonization plans, to Africa or elsewhere, 23–24, 67, 170 Afro-American Council. See National Afro-American Council Albanese, Catherine, 7–8. See also American Revolution Alger, Horatio, 67–68 American Anti-Slavery Society, 16. See also Abolitionism American civil religion, 3–10, 54, 70, 109, 136, 148–49, 163, 168, 213–14, 227 American Revolution, 5, 7–10, 35, 150 American School of Ethnology, 26 Ames, Jessie Daniel, 128 Anglo-Saxonism, 8, 25–26, 28, 64–65 Armstrong, General Samuel, 56. See also Washington, Booker T. Atlanta Race Riot of 1906, 98–99 Atlanta University, 95, 101. See also Du Bois, W. E. B. Auld, Thomas, 15–16 Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois, The (W. E. B. Du Bois), 137–38 Baldwin, James, 177 Baldwin, Lewis V., 180 Barnett, Ferdinand, 76, 81 Bellah, Robert N., 227 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 6–7, 68, 218 Bethune, Mary McLeod, 13–14, 115–32, 149, 219, 227; and Black Cabinet, 115; on black self-help and reform, 120–21; and black women’s clubs, 125–26; on black women’s missionary role, 125–26; childhood and youth of, 122–25; compared with W. E. B. Du Bois, 116, 125, 219, 227; compared with Martin Luther King, Jr., 116, 131, 149, 219, 227; compared with Booker T. Washington, 116, 122, 124–25, 147; compared with Ida B. Wells, 116, 125, 219; conciliatory rhetoric of, toward whites, 127–29; “darky jokes” told by, 128; and Daytona Normal and Industrial School for Negro Girls, 123; as educational administrator and fundraiser, 123–25; and ideology of “true womanhood,” 122, 125–26; and industrial education, 120, 123–25; on interracial progressive political alliance, 117, 121–22; as jeremiah, 13–14, 116–18; and National Youth Administration, 115–16, 128–29; on need for black civic participation in American life, 120–22; participation of, in New Deal, 115–22, 126–29, 131; on promise of democracy, 119–20, 131; on promise of interracial liberal reform, 115–17, 119–21, 131; protests against racial discrimination, 116–24, 129; on racial separatism, 120–22; reform rhetoric of, to blacks, 120–22; reform rhetoric of, to whites, 119, 129 Bethune-Cookman College, 125 “Big Six” of 1960s Negro leaders, 162. See also “Farce on Washington”; Malcolm X 270 Index “Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged” or “Marshall Plan for the Poor,” 188, 205–6. See also King, Jr., Martin Luther Birmingham campaign, led by King, 156–59, 161, 194, 196–97 Black Cabinet, 115. See also Bethune, Mary McLeod; New Deal and blacks Black Codes, 46 Black Laws, 31 Black Muslims. See Nation of Islam Black nationalism, 10, 12–13, 24, 30, 82, 109, 132, 153, 164–167, 170, 181, 220 Black Panthers, 212 Black Power, 192, 194–95, 202 “Black radicals,” 81, 83, 87 Black women’s clubs, 125 Blacks as chosen people within a chosen people, 13, 153, 163 Blacks as “nation within a nation,” 70 Boston University, 143 Brown, John, 102, 106 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 141–42, 151 Bunche, Ralphe, 131 Bush, George W., 4 Calhoun, John C., 38 Carmichael, Stokely, 192 Carnegie, Andrew, 68 Chicago campaign, led by King, 193–97 Chicago Conservator, 76 Chicago Tribune, 77 Citizen Councils. See White Citizens Councils Civil disobedience. See Nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience Civil Rights Act of 1875, 51 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 159, 171, 175, 187–88 Civil rights movement, 90, 115, 129, 140–41, 148–50, 155, 160, 162, 173, 180, 185, 188–90, 193, 198–200, 204, 220, 222 Civil War, 9, 31, 33, 40–42, 50, 55, 64, 142, 204, 217 Cleveland, Grover, 60 Color and Democracy (W. E. B. Du Bois), 132 Coolidge, Calvin, 126 Communism, 133, 199–200. See also Communist Party; Marx, Karl; Socialism Communist Party, American, 135–36, 199–200 Compromise of 1877, 50. See also Reconstruction Cone, James H., 180, 182 Confederate States of America, 40, 43 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 221 Connor, Eugene “Bull,” 157. See also Birmingham campaign Constitution of United States, 1, 5, 35, 37, 39, 47, 141, 149, 158, 160, 162, 166, 173, 180, 185, 188–90, 193, 198–200, 204, 220, 222 Covey, William, 15–16 Crisis, the, 104–6, 110–11, 113. See also Du...