Mississippi Black History Makers

Contents

Contents Preface x Politics 3 Hiram Hodes Revels 7 Blanche Kelso Bruce 16 John Roy Lynch 26 James D. Lynch 38 James Hill 48 Thomas W. Stringer 49 Josiah T. Settle 52 Roscoe Conklin Simmons 55 Robert H. Wood 58 James Charles Evers 59 Unita Blackwell Wright 66 Eddie James Carthan 67 Marion Shepilov Barry 72 Evan Doss 73 W.E.Mollison 75 Constance Slaughter-Harvey 76 Henry Jay Kirksey 77 Robert George Clark 80 Aaron Henry 84 Douglas Leavon Anderson 87 Fred Lee Banks 87 Horace Lawson Buckley 87 Credell Calhoun 88 Tyrone Ellis 88 Hillman Jerome Frazier 89 Isiah Fredericks 89 David Leo Green 89 Clayton P. Henderson 90 Leslie Darnell King 90 Barney J. Schoby 91 Charles Bernard Sheppard 91 Percy Willis Watson 91 vi Contents Charles Lemuel Young 92 Deborah Jones Gambrell 92 Melvin Redmond 93 James Winfield 93 Eddie Lucas 94 Eddie L. McBride 94 Clifford Jennings 95 James C. Cooper 95 Vernon C. Johnson 96 Charles E. Pugh 96 William K. Dease, Sr. 96 Betty Jones 97 Civil Rights 99 Ida B. Wells 103 Margaret Murray Washington 111 Jack Harvey Young, Sr. 112 MedgarEvers 117 Fannie Lou Hamer 122 Clyde Kennard 131 James Meredith 133 James Chaney 143 Willie Tatum 145 Business 147 William T. Johnson 149 The Montgomerys: Ben and Isaiah 154 George Washington Lee 163 Joseph Edison Walker 170 Clarie Collins Harvey 176 George Johnson 180 Robert Earl Jones 181 Jessie R. Chambliss 182 Sam Baker 183 Vernon Floyd 184 Charlene Owens 185 Rose Morgan 185 Louise K. Quarles 186 Randolph T. Myrick 187 Emorrie Jenkins 187 E.W. Green 187 Thelma Sanders 187 Naomi Sims 188 Contents vii Education 189 John DeweyBoyd 193 Walter Washington 195 B. Baldwin Dansby 198 Jacob L. Reddix 199 John A. Peoples, Jr. 204 Ernest A. Boykins, Jr. 206 Joe Louis Boyer 208 George A. Owens 209 Laurence C.Jones 211 Jane Ellen McAllister 217 Florence Octavia Alexander 222 Cleopatra D.Thompson 223 Hazael McFarland Thompson 226 William H. Holtzaw 228 Willa B.Player 229 William Arthur Butts 230 Edward Allen Jones 231 Romeo Benjamin Garrett 233 Melerson Guy Dunham 236 Charlemae Hill Rollins 237 Ruby Stutts Lyells 238 Joffre T. Whisenton 239 William Smith Demby 240 The J. E. Johnsons 242 Arenia C. Mallory 245 McKinley Charles Martin 245 Joyce Ladner 246 Gladys Noel Bates 246 Lou EmmaHolloway 246 Janice White Sikes 247 Dorothy Gordon Gray 248 Julius Eric Thompson 248 Literature and Journalism 249 Richard Nathaniel Wright 252 Margaret Walker Alexander 267 Anne Moody 269 Percy Green 270 The William A. Scott Family 273 Lerone Bennett, Jr. 277 Wililam Dilday 280 viii Contents Jessie Mosley 281 Sarah Harvey Stevens 281 William Gordon 281 The Performing and Visual Arts 283 Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield 285 William Grant Still 285 Leontyne Price 292 B. B. King 302 Ellas "BoDiddley" McDaniel 312 Charley Pride 315 Arthur Crudup 320 Frederick O'Neal 321 James Earl Jones 322 Richmond Barthé 325 Sam Gilliam 325 Lavern Hamberlin 326 Joseph Overstreet 327 Beah Richards 327 William Fischer 327 Frederick Douglass Hall 328 Raeschelle Potter 328 Lucia Hawkins 329 Albert King 329 Little Milton 330 Levion Dillon 330 Ike Turner 330 Bukka White 331 Bobby Bryant 331 Religion 333 Alexander Preston Shaw 336 Sherman Lawrence Greene, Sr. 337 Lucy C. Jefferson 341 H. Hartford Brookins 342 Homer C. McEwen, Sr. 345 Joseph Harrison Jackson 347 L. Venchael Booth 349 Mae Frances Spencer 351 Science, Medicine, and Social Work 353 Sidney D. Redmond 355 L.T. Miller 361 George H. Lane 364 Contents ix Deborah Hyde-Rowan 364 Eliza J. Pillars 365 Rhetaugh G. Dumas 367 Jessie O. Thomas 368 Lucille Price 373 Cleo Walter Blackburn 374 Walter Massey 376 Natalia Tanner Cain 376 Margaret Lawrence 377 Gwendolyn Nero Loper 377 Georgie Catchings Coleman 377 Jennifer O. Hicks 378 Sports 379 Walter Payton 381 Lusia Harris Stewart 387 Pete Brown 388 Spence Haywood 389 Eugene Short 389 George Scott 390 Mildrette Netter 390 Military 391 Thomas J. Money, Jr. 393 Jesse Leroy Brown 395 John Mitchell Brown 398 Modis A. Smiley 399 Glennie M. Rowland 400 Daniel L.Jennings 400 Notes 401 Appendix 443 Index 453 ...