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301 INDEX Acme Telephoto Trans-Ceiver, 96 adoption, 100–101, 136–37, 139 Adrian College, Michigan, 34 advertising rates, Tupelo Journal and Tupelo Daily News, 57 air conditioning, 154 Amberson,William R.: background of, 41; and malnutrition among welfare recipients, 49–50; and Memphis socialism, 42–43; and relationship with McLean, 52, 203–4; and Unemployed Citizens’ League, 44, 46 Anderson, Newell, 157–59 artificial insemination, ix, 92–94 Asbill, Mac, Jr., 239, 251–52 Ashby,Augustus, 67–68, 121–22 Associated Press, 72 attic fan, 154 auto travel, cross-country, 10–11 Balance Agriculture with Industry (BAWI), 81–82, 119 Bank of Tupelo, 117 Barclay,William, 156 Barnett, Ross, 175–76 Bassett, H.Y., 123–25 Belk, Leroy, 239–40 Bell, Rubel, 174 berries and sweet potatoes, 135 Birmingham Daily News and Tupelo Journal, 57 Black, Felix: and boycott, 226–27, 231; and CREATE, 202; and Day-Brite, 120; and Lift, Inc., 181–82; and reading aides, 245–46; and relationship with McLean, 190 Black Tuesday, 35 Black’s Department Store, 120, 227 Bloom, Benjamin S., 237–38 blue laws, 30, 152 Board of Aldermen, 221–23 Bondurant,Alexander, 19 boosterism, ix, 6, 122 bootleggers, 152 Boston University, 29, 31–33 boy scouts, 162–63, 173–74 boycott: arrests and confrontations, 232–34; coverage of, 225–26; effects of, 225–26, 228; origins of, 222–24 breast feeding, 23 Breneau College, 20 Brenkert, Karl, Jr., 206–7 Brewer, Mississippi, 130, 134–35 Brown v. Board of Education, 165–66 Byhalia, Mississippi, 26–29, 108, 222 bylines, 81, 109 cable television, 152–53 Calhoun Street Station, Memphis, 3 Calumet-Hecla Consolidated Copper Co. See Wolverine Tube Care and Feeding of Children: A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children’s Nurses, 102–3 Carnation condensing plant, 90, 116 Carr, Gale, 91–93 302 Index Carver High School, Tupelo, 152, 162, 180 Chaney, Betty Norwood, 162 check forgery, 215 child labor, 79 child–care manual, 102–3 Christian academies, 179–80 Christian Service Trust, 200 CIO, 80–81, 84 Citizens’ Council, 165–66, 167 Civilian Conservation Corps, 69–70 Clayborne, Michael, 276 Coleman, James P., 167 Columbia Theological Seminary, 207 Comcast Corporation, 153 communism, 45–46, 48, 144 community action agency. See Lift, Inc. Community Development Foundation (CDF): and business recruitment, 160–61; and Daily Journal contributions to, 201; founding of, 147–49; and Ku Klux Klan, 229; McLean keynote address to, 198; and reading aides, 239; and warehouse opposition, 186–87 Compugraphic, 189 Congress of Industrial Organizations. See CIO conscription, 105–6 Converse, Henry, 14, 20, 21 Cook, Minnesota, 64 cotton, 58, 78–80, 90. See also Tupelo Cotton Mill Court Week, 5 Cox, Jimmy, 83–85, 87 CREATE: and Daily Journal, 269–72; founding of, 201–3; and 2008 recession, 276 Crews,William F.“Billy”: and Daily Journal, 258, 270–72; and McLean faith, 260–61; and meeting McLean, 236–37; and reading aides, 242–43, 248 Crider, Ed, 221–22 Crockett, D. B., 158–59 cross-country auto travel, 10 Crubaugh, John Sherman, 176–77 Cruber, Dale: and father’s arrest, 234; demotion of, 222–23; and prisoner beating, 215, 220; resignation of, 226–27 Crump, E. H.“Boss,” 39, 40, 46, 49 Dacus, N. E., 173–74, 180 Daily Journal: acquisition offers for, 194, 199, 259; boycott coverage by, 232; and Brown v. Board of Education, 165; business priorities of, 271; change to daily publication, 71–75; circulation of, 76, 95–97, 140–41, 193, 251–52, 276; circulation manager, abduction of, 157–59; community involvement of, 95–96, 141, 192, 241; and CREATE, 201–3, 269–71; and Doane Agricultural Services, 129; early operating costs of, 77; and Elvis Presley concert, 169–71; employee turnover at, 142, 208–10; and Green Street building, xi, 187–89, 271–72; and IRS, 251, 253–54; and Keirsey McLean, 54–55, 111–12, 265–66, 267–72; and Ku Klux Klan, 230–31; labor coverage of, 81–83, 85–86; local ownership of, 257–58; and McLean death, 266, 267; name changes of, 74, 140, 212; news policies of, 163–64, 225, 231; offset printing press, 188–89; and purchase of Tupelo Daily News, 139–40; and racial identification in, 70, 140, 194; and reading aides, 239, 241, 244–47; and recession effects, 276; sports coverage of, 193–94; Sunday edition, 107, 271; and technology use, 96, 188–89, 262–64; and University of Mississippi riots, 175–76; and warehouses, 186–88...

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