Camille, 1969: Histories of a Hurricane

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69 Index Agnew, Spiro T., 32, 33, 35, 50 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, 31 Army Corps of Engineers, 43 Bandy, Lee, 28 Bay St. Louis, Miss., 2, 8, 9, 10 Bechtel, Stefan, 55n1 Biloxi, Miss., 2, 8, 24, 50, 51–52 Biloxi-Gulfport Daily Herald, 28 Bolton, Charles C., 30–31 Brezhnev, Leonid, 31 Brown v. Board of Education, 25, 28, 30 civil rights. See Brown v. Board of Education; Civil Rights Act of 1964; Nixon, Richard: and civil rights; recovery and relief efforts; segregation Civil Rights Act of 1964, 28, 31, 61n11 Clark, Guy H., 28–29, 30, 33 Clark, Lee Roy, Jr., 13, 14, 16, 17, 19 Clark, Robert, 45 Combined Community Organizations Disaster Committee (ccodc), 44, 45 Commerce Department, 31, 49 Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (hew), 27, 28, 29–30, 32–35, 49, 50, 60n8 Department of Housing and Urban Development (hud), 41–42, 45, 46 Finch, Robert, 32, 33, 34, 35, 50 Gerlach, Mary Ann, 17–18, 45 Glazer, Nathan, 35 Governor’s Emergency Council (gec), 49–51, 52, 53, 54 Gulfport, Miss., 10, 28–29, 38 Harrison County, Miss., 25, 27, 57n7 Health, Education, and Welfare (hew). See Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 70 Index Hearn, Philip D., 55n1 Henry, Aaron, 45 Holleman, Boyce, 44 Hope, Bob, 49 Housing and Urban Development, Department of (hud), 41–42, 45, 46 Howard, Judith A., 55n1 Hurricane Allen (1980), 2 Hurricane Betsy (1965), 2, 64n17 Hurricane Camille (1969): compared with Vietnam, 12; destruction by, 2, 10, 12–13, 14–16, 17, 36; and elderly, 43, 48; and electricity, 57n7; evacuation, 27, 37, 63n2; eye of, 17; force of, 1–2; memories of, 13–14, 17, 27; and National Guard, 16; path of, 2, 3; political context of, 24–25, 26, 27–35, 37, 48–51; psychological toll of, 42–43; and sightseers, 13; and tornados, 2. See also recovery and relief efforts Hurricane Emergency Relief Council, 31, 45 Hurricane Katrina, 53–54 hurricanes: and landfall, 1–2; metrics of, 1 intersensorality, 6; and Camille, 18–19 Jackson State College, Miss., 27 Johnson, Lyndon B., 24–25, 48 Johnston, Garvin, 30 Justice Department, 24, 33 Labor Day hurricane (1935), 1–2 Laird, Melvin, 31 LaRue, Fred, 50–51 Long Beach, Miss., 9, 10, 36 Mason, Gilbert, 25, 31, 39, 45 Mississippi: and banking, 38, 52, 63n4; class biases in, 39–40, 42, 44, 45–48, 54; development of Gulf Coast of, 49–50, 51–53, 66n35, 67n37; education in, 25–26, 27–35; levees in, 21–23; and Reconstruction, 21–23, 25; segregation in, 25–34, 40, 43–45, 47, 65n24 Mississippi State Bar Association, 43–44 modernity: and environment, 4–5; and natural disasters, 7, 20; and senses, 4–5, 6–7, 10, 12, 14–15, 16, 18, 19–20; and South, 19–20, 59n34 naacp, 25, 31, 32, 33, 45. See also Mason, Gilbert natural disasters: and historical context, 23–24, 26; and modernity , 7, 20; recovery from, 36–37 New England hurricane (1938), 13 New Orleans, 53 New Republic, 49–50 New York Times, 33, 34 Nixon, Richard: and civil rights, 24–25, 28, 29–31, 32–34; and national security issues, 26, 31–32; and relief funds, 48, 49–51, 53, 54 North Gulfport High School, 27 Obama, Barack, 53 Office for Civil Rights, 32, 33, 34–35 Office of Economic Opportunity (oeo), 43–44, 46, 48–49 Office of Education, 28, 29, 30 Panetta, Leon, 32, 34, 35, 50, 62n22 Pass Christian, Miss., 2, 9, 12, 36, 52 Index 71 Peralta, Gerald, 12 Pyle, R. Wayne, 55n1 recovery and relief efforts: by ccodc, 44, 45; by federal government , 26, 28–29, 30–35, 41–43, 48, 49–51; by Hurricane Emergency Relief Council, 31, 45; and insurance, 38–39, 63n5; long-term, 36–37, 41–43, 45, 49–50, 51–53; race and class disparities in, 39–41, 43–48, 53, 65n22; short-term, 36–41, 44, 49, 51; and unemployment, 46, 47–48; by voluntary associations , 39. See also Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; Department of Housing and Urban Development; Office of Economic Opportunity; Red Cross; Salvation Army; Small Business Administration Red Cross, 15–16, 39–41, 45, 53, 64nn10–11 Robert E. Lee Hotel (Jackson, Miss.), 27 Ryals, Herman W., 38 Safeguard missile system, 31–33 Salvation Army, 16, 39, 40, 41 segregation: and Camille, 23, 24, 26–27, 28–35, 40, 43...