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index abolition, 19, 49, 59, 106. See also North, the, antislavery movement in accommodation, 141; Booker T. Washington’s model of, 113, 117, 118–26, 133 acculturation, 29, 30, 208–9 activism, blacks’, 106, 133–42, 218–19n36; Du Bois’s strategies of, 105, 113, 118–26, 133. See also civil rights era; politics, blacks’ involvement in African Americans. See Black Americans African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), 100 agency, blacks’, 88, 118; of freedmen, 6, 16, 73, 101; of slaves, 35, 41, 74. See also selfdetermination , blacks’ agriculture, 10–12. See also cotton farming; farmers; plantation agriculture; rice production ; tobacco farming alcohol, Sunday sales of, 28, 29 Alderman, Derek H., 202–3 Allensworth, J. L., 143, 144 amalgamation, racial, 114 AME. See African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) amelioration, 118 American Christian Mission Society, 34, 62 American Colonization Society, 6, 61, 64; African Repository and Colonial Journal, 70 American Tobacco Company, 113, 147–53 Ancestry: black-white, 29–32, 36, 93, 95, 183–84, 213–14; Native American, 26–27 Andrew, James O., 97–98 anthropologists and anthropology, 3, 4, 158, 242n11 antislavery activities. See abolition; slaves, resistance by apartheid, American, 5, 36, 93, 95, 113, 175 Aptheker, Herbert, 39 archivists. See historians assimilation, 9, 22–23, 208 Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 19, 136 Atkins, George, 197, 198, 199, 200 Atkinson, J. G., 123, 127 All geographic entries are located in Kentucky unless otherwise indicated. Page numbers in boldface with the designation “(following)” refer to photograph sections located after pages 71 and 187. 266 index Atlanta Compromise speech of 1895 (Booker T. Washington), 118, 124 attorneys, black. See Black Americans, lawyers Attucks, Crispus, 21, 71 (following). See also Crispus Attucks High School (Hopkinsville ) Atwood, R. B., 193 autonomy, blacks’, 73, 88–92, 98, 110–11, 193. See also agency, blacks’; self-determination , black Averitte, Drucilla, 183 Avery Fund, 106 Bailey, Nathan, 91 Bailey, Tyesha, 187 (following) Baker, Robert, 80 Ball, Edward, 18 Banks, A. C., 92 Banks, John, 204 Banks, Kit, 99 Baptist churches, 28, 97, 107 Barr, Bob, 176 Bass, Green and Julia Smith, 105, 108 Bass, Idella, 71 (following) Bass, James Walter, 2, 71 (following), 102, 105–8, 131–32 Bass, Johnnie Fiser (wife of James Walter), 71 (following), 107 Bass, Jordan, Sr., 108 Bass, Joseph C., 105, 106, 108 Bass, Mary (daughter-in-law of Joseph), 105 Bass, Peyton, 108–9 Bell, James, 85 Bell, John, 179 Bell, Phil, 99 Belt, George W., 109–10 Belt, Rachel. See Eddington, Rachel, letters from Liberia Bench by the Road Project, 8 benevolence. See slave owners, benevolence of; slavery, benign view of; Union Benevolent Association Bennett, Edith, 70 Berea College (Berea, KY), 114, 132 Berlin, Ira, 5, 156, 158 Berry, Wendell, 16 Bible, 41–42, 147 Billings, M. E., 82 Bingham, Ned, 180–82 Bingham family reunion, 180–82, 209 biracial balkanization. See black-white racial divide Birth of a Nation, The, 162; black protests against showings of, 125, 135–36, 231n61 Black Americans: businesses owned by, 14, 23– 24, 123, 132–33; churches, 6–7, 20, 97–102, 112, 130–31; community building by, 238n59; culture of, 7, 29–30, 208–12; disenfranchisement of, 118, 120; empowerment of, 1, 141, 175; equal rights for, 190, 191, 222n20; history of, 15–21, 168, 182, 184–87; immigrants contrasted with, 23–25, 208; incarcerations of male, 211; Jews’ status contrasted with, 24–25, 220n52; journalists , 20–21, 219n41; lawyers, 24, 110, 113, 130, 131, 132, 139, 182, 248n12; leaders among, 71, 130–31, 144, 193, 195–200; literature of, 184–87; memorializing, 200–203; middle class, 1, 103, 113, 123, 130, 132–33, 210–11, 212; shared past with whites, 213–14; white stereotypes regarding , 18, 50, 109–11, 114, 123–24, 142, 145, 161, 231n61. See also Christian County, blacks in; community, black, postbellum establishment of; employment, black; freedmen; Hopkinsville, blacks in; slaves Black History Month, 21 Black Patch region, 12 Black Patch War, 147–53 black-white racial divide, 7, 110–11, 116, 176, 210–12. See also race relations Blight, David W., 18, 95, 162–63, 231n61 Blum, Edward J., 29 Board of Education, Brown v., 190, 191, 210 Boas, Franz, 4; culture concept of, 17–18 Booker T. Washington School (Hopkinsville), 14 Boulton, Alexander O., 32 Boyd, Charlie, murder of, 49 Brame, Benjamin, lynching of, 142–45 Breathitt, James, 114, 115, 131–32; at Latham Monument dedication, 160, 161, 162 Breckinridge, John C., 160, 161–62, 179 Breckinridge, W. C. P., 160...

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