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207 Index African American(s), 12–18, 21–22, 45, 57, 73, 83, 88–89, 94–95, 110– 12, 140–42; community, 16–17, 77, 138; in Mississippi, 5, 14, 31, 70, 85, 91–92, 111, 126, 135, 141; population of, 12–17, 19, 21–22, 44–45, 57, 73, 75, 89, 115, 122–23 American democracy, 19, 21–22, 46–47, 55, 76–77, 100, 104, 107– 8, 110–12, 117–18 American race relations, 2, 5, 24, 47, 67, 89, 105, 135 Americans, 1–2, 4–5, 20, 22, 24–25, 98, 100, 104, 106, 135–36; white, 6, 26, 65, 96, 136 Anderson, Devery, 142,144–45 antilynching legislation, 13, 29–30, 61, 82, 136, 149 Atlanta Constitution, 35, 37, 116 Atlanta Daily World, 38–40, 45, 65, 89, 94, 139 Baltimore Afro-American, 89, 119, 139 Bilbo, Theodore, 13–14, 29–30, 64, 149 Birmingham World, 45, 131 black equality, 11, 37, 64, 97, 123, 128 black press, 33, 38, 45, 85, 89–90, 94, 101, 103, 109–10, 117–18; employees, 33, 89–90, 117 Blair, Ezell, Jr., 135 Bolen, R. C., 113–14 Booker, Simeon, 25–26, 91, 93 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS, decisions, 1, 18–19, 24, 26, 28, 30, 35–36, 46–47, 49, 64 Bryan family, 36 Bryant, Carolyn, 31, 62–63, 87–88, 93, 114, 130, 133, 137, 139, 142 Bryant, Raymond, 62 Bryant, Roy, 3, 8, 61–63, 65, 67, 86, 89, 137, 139, 142 Bryant and Milam, 7–9, 62–63, 71–72, 74–76, 80–83, 94–95, 104–6, 114– 16, 137–42, 148; family, 140–41 California Eagle, 139–40, 148 Carter, Hodding, 97–98, 131 Carthan, John, 113 Carthan family, 12, 14, 17 Catledge, Turner, 32 Charlotte, NC, 37, 88, 113 Charlotte Observer, 34–38, 89, 113, 115–16 Chatham, Gerald, 38, 72, 74 Chicago, IL, 12, 14–15, 50–51, 54, 60–61, 128–30, 132, 143, 145, 151; suburbs, 12, 14 Chicago Defender, 15, 85–86, 101, 103, 139, 142, 144, 146–47, 149, 151 Chicago Sun-Times, 26–27, 35, 50–52, 54, 56, 61, 72, 147 Chicago Tribune, 3, 25–27, 35, 51, 53–56, 69, 71–73, 81–82, 143 Church of God in Christ (COGIC), 11, 50, 53, 94 Church Women United (CWU), 6, 55, 80–81, 134 208 Index civil rights activists, 25, 133–35 civil rights movement, 9, 119, 135, 147–48 civil rights organizations, 2, 22, 34–35, 38, 40, 63–64, 74, 76, 125, 127–28 civil rights trail, 151 Cleveland Call and Post, 31, 57–58, 84, 89 closed society, 22, 26, 30, 40, 75, 81, 97–98, 104, 106, 116 Cold War, 2, 7, 21–22, 39, 46, 58, 60, 97, 104, 106 Collins, Leroy, 83–84, 86, 90 Communist Party, 8, 28, 48–49, 53, 59–61, 99, 117, 120, 123–24 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 16 Crespino, Joseph, 5–6, 76, 128 Daily Worker, 6, 68 Delta Democrat-Times, 43–44, 64, 127, 129–30 Denver Post, 40–41, 78, 121–22, 124 Department of Justice, 58, 86, 102, 148–49 Detroit News, 27–28, 69, 72–73, 81 Diggs, Charles, 110–11 dispositions, 2–6, 8, 17, 20, 32, 46–47, 59, 61, 77, 79 Dixon, Amos, 139–40 Eastland, James O., 14, 44, 64, 123; in political cartoon, 108 editorials, 2–4, 35, 41–43, 45–46, 64–65, 98, 100, 103–4, 116, 129 editors, 2–4, 37–38, 81, 84, 91–92, 97, 103–4, 106–7, 109–10, 128–29 education, 1, 19, 24, 46–47, 55, 110, 145, 147 Eisenhower, Dwight, 41, 53, 86, 96, 99 Emmett Till Foundation, 146 Emmett Till generation, 9, 22–23, 94–95, 97, 99, 101, 105–7, 111–13, 117, 119 Emmett Till Players, 145–47 Emmett Till Road, 149–50; dedication of, 150 Evers, Charles, 75 Evers, Medgar, 5, 18, 75, 134, 136 faith, 11, 55, 74, 78, 94, 144 family, 7, 9, 11–12, 25, 51, 62, 82, 124–25, 133, 140–41 Featherstone, Jim, 91–92 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 60, 102, 148–49 Federal Housing Authority (FHA), 16–17 filibuster, 13, 28–30, 149 framing mechanism, 4, 6, 8, 24, 31–2, 35, 37, 47, 59, 61. See also priming mechanism funeral. See under Till, Emmett gender, 4, 6–8, 23, 47, 52, 54, 56, 83, 86, 112–13 “ghettos,”16–17 Glendora, MS, 90–91, 151 God...
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