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A Renegade History of the United States

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by Thaddeus Russell

Lender, Mark Edward, 23

  Leonard, Benny, 167, 174

  lesbians, see gays, homosexuality

  Leslie, Joan, 280

  Letter from Birmingham Jail (King), 316, 322

  Levine, Peter, 167, 178

  Lhamon, W. T., Jr., 46

  liberalism, 212, 240

  Life, 280, 298

  Life of Emile Zola, The, 266

  Lightwood, Eleanor, 12

  Lincoln, Abraham, 42, 59, 78, 93, 259

  lipstick, 102, 117, 118

  L’Italia, 186, 188, 197

  Little Caesar, 232

  Little Richard, 308

  Little Verses for Good Children, 50

  Locke, John, 24, 135

  Loeb, Philip, 178

  Loew, Marcus, 239

  Lombardo, Guy, 193–94

  Looking Forward, 242, 243

  Lorenzen, Lelain, 338

  Los Angeles, Calif., 120–21, 273, 312

  homosexuals in, 328, 330

  Los Angeles Morals Efficiency Committee, 123

  Lott, Eric, 147, 149

  Lovinger, Louisa, 12

  Lowell, Mass., 93–94

  Lucas, James, 52

  Luconi, Stefano, 200

  Luna Park, 228

  Lundberg, Victor, 334

  Luther, Martin, 130

  luxury, 26, 29, 30, 38, 209, 212, 213, 214, 221, 224, 228, 233, 297, 307

  lynchings, 119, 188

  of African Americans, 161–62, 164

  of Italian Americans, 182

  of Leo Frank, 163-64

  Lynd, Staughton, 303

  Lynn, Loretta, 334, 335

  Lyons, Clare, 11–12, 13, 15, 19, 34

  Lyons, Doctor, 132–33

  Mabley, Moms, 307

  McClellan, George, Jr., 238

  McCumber, Porter, 214

  McDonagh, Father, 151

  McDougall, Eliza, 12

  McEntee, James J., 253–54

  McGovern, James R., 118

  McGuffey’s Reader, 92

  McMullen, William “Bull,” 150

  M’Roberts, Patrick, 13

  MacTaggart, John, 142

  Macy’s, 207, 217–18

  madams, 108–9, 120, 124

  wealth of, 105–7

  Madison, James, 33

  Mafia, 190, 229, 234, 235

  Magdalen Society, 34

  Magers, Helmut, 242

  MAGIC cables, 276n

  Malcolm X, 200, 202, 271–72, 301–2

  Malkin, Michelle, 276n

  Maman, Alan Daniel (“The Alchemist”), 180

  Mancuso, David, 203

  Mann Act (1910), 123, 310

  Manone, Wingy, 192–93

  Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race (Montagu), 177

  Marcantonio, Vito, 188

  Marcy, William, 72

  Margolis, Max, 174

  “Marian doctrine,” 152

  marijuana, 280–81

  market economy, 37–38

  market research surveys, 226

  marriage, 15, 35–36, 65, 265

  of ex-slaves, 87–91

  of gays, 330

  between Italians and blacks, 186

  Marsala, Joe, 192–93

  Martin, James Kirby, 23

  Martin, Linda, 292

  Marx Brothers, 264

  Massachusetts, 27, 59

  Massachusetts Bay Colony, 19, 47–48, 128

  “Master Juba,” 148

  masturbation, 35, 64

  Mather, Cotton, 49, 130

  Mather, Increase, 129–30

  Mathews, Cornelius, 71–72

  Matranga, Henry, 229–30

  Matranga’s, 191

  Mattachine Society, 324, 325

  Matthews, J. B., 243

  Mayer, Louis, 265

  maypoles, 128, 129, 137–38

  “Melinda May” (Foster), 44–45

  Melting-Pot, The (Zangwill), 162–63

  Menninger, William, 277

  Merrymount settlement, 128–29

  Mexican Americans, 273

  Mexican-American War, 69

  Meyer, Martin A., 161

  Mezzrow, Milton “Mezz,” 171–72

  MGM, 265

  military, 29, 59

  gays in, 277–80, 325, 331

  Miller, Kerby, 143, 151–52

  Miner, Maude, 124

  minstrelsy, see blackface minstrels

  miscegenation, 4, 144–45, 258

  Missionary Education Committee, 184

  Mississippi, 55, 91, 302–4

  Mississippi Delta, 182

  modernist movement, 22

  Moley, Raymond, 250

  Moloney, Mick, 147

  monarchy, 22–23

  Montagu, Ashley, 177

  Montgomery, Ala., 301, 315

  Montgomery bus boycott, 296, 315

  Moore, Rudy Ray, 307

  Morgan, Edmund S., 20

  Moriah commune, 340

  Morris, Robert, 33

  Morton, Ferdinand “Jelly Roll,” 191

  Morton, Thomas, 128–29

  Moskowitz, Belle, 113, 170, 175

  motion picture industry, 227

  Motion Picture Patents Company, 237

  Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, 257, 261

  Motion Picture Production Code, 175, 261

  movies, 170, 175, 222, 227, 237–39, 264–65, 289, 291, 292

  African Americans as portrayed in, 307

  censorship of, 257–58, 261

  gangsters as portrayed in, 232–33

  homosexuality in, 328

  Jews in, 264–65

  New Deal and, 259, 261–62

  sexuality in, 236, 237, 258

  women as portrayed in, 233

  Moyamensing Hose Company, 150

  muckrakers, 246

  Mumford, Kevin J., 121, 122

  Muni, Paul, 232

  Murphy, Ed “the Skull,” 235

  Murphy, George, 280

  Muscio, Giuliana, 257

  music, 46–47, 130, 189–95, 285–86, 308–11

  see also specific music genres

  musical theater, 165

  Mussolini, Benito, 199, 240, 243, 245, 246, 250, 252, 253, 254, 260, 261, 262

  Mussolini, Vittorio, 261–62

  Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America (Diggins), 246

  M. Witmark & Sons, 168

  Myrdal, Gunnar, 312, 315

  Nakamura, Julia Volpelletto, 190

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, (NAACP), 271, 323

  National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), 246

  National Council of Churches, 303

  National Council of Disk Jockeys for Public Service, 292

  National Guard, 199

  National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), 243, 245, 247, 250, 252

  National Labor Union, 211

  National Origins Act (1924), 158, 197

  National Purity Association, 123

  National Recovery Administration (NRA), 245, 252, 259, 262

  National Urban League, 187

  National War Labor Board, 214

  Native Americans, 4, 128, 339–40

  dancing of, 132–33

  naturism, 329

  Navy, U.S., 277

  Nazis, Nazism, 240–42, 243, 247–49, 253–56, 258, 262–64, 266

  NBC, 257, 300

  Nearing, Scott, 248, 249

  Necaise, Henri, 52

  Neues Deutschland, 286, 287, 289

  Nevada, 103, 236

  Nevada Project Corporation, 236

  New Bethel Baptist Church, 300

  New Deal, 50, 240–69, 336, 341

  fascism compared to, 240, 243

  Hollywood and, 259, 261–62

  Nazism compared to, 243, 263

  New England Watch and Ward Society, 123

  New Jersey, 95, 201

  New Mexico, 339–40

  New Orleans, La., 74, 113, 118, 182, 186, 194, 229

  Litt
le Palermo in, 190–91, 193

  New Physiognomy (Wells), 141

  New Picture-Book, A, 49

  New Republic, 243

  “new right,” 336–37

  New York, N.Y., 3, 4, 10, 40, 45, 95–96, 110, 113, 116, 121, 144, 145, 153, 165, 166, 187, 191–92, 194, 215–18, 220–22, 238, 299

  draft riots in, 149

  Five Points in, 143, 145, 147, 153

  Harlem in, see Harlem, N.Y.

  prostitution in, 13, 104, 110

  1741 fire in, 10

  shirtwaist strike in, 218, 221

  taverns and tavern culture in, 5, 9–10

  New York Association of Working Girl’s Societies (NYAWG), 222

  New York by Gas-Light (Foster), 115, 145

  New York Clipper, 146

  New York Police Department (NYPD), 235

  New York Society for Ethical Culture, 162

  New York Times, 181, 328

  New York World, 113, 116

  Nice, Chuck, 204

  “Nickel in the Slot” (Manone), 193

  nickelodeons, 227, 237–38

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 248

  Niles, Hezekiah, 71

  Nixon, Richard, 336

  No Crown, No Cross (Penn), 130

  nonviolence, 316, 321, 322

  North Carolina, 29, 131

  North Dakota, 266

  Northup, Solomon, 72–73

  nudity, 329

  Nutt, Haller, 67–68

  Nye, Russel B., 113

  O’Brien, Andrew Leary, 142–43

  O’Connell, William Henry, 151, 159

  Office of Education, U.S., 257

  Office of Price Administration, 276–77

  Oglethorpe, James, 132

  Ohio, 47, 93, 333

  Olcott, Chauncey, 153, 154–55

  Oliver, Joe “King,” 170, 191, 195, 230, 231

  Olmsted, Frederick Law, 54, 55, 56, 72

  On Our Way, 242

  On the Road, 309

  Operation PUSH, 308

  Order of the Sons of Italy in America, 196, 198, 204

  Ordway, John P., 45

  Ordway’s Aeolians, 153

  Oregon, 266, 338

  Orsi, Robert, 188

  Osborne, Jimmie, 333

  “Over There” (Cohan), 158

  Owens, Virginia Stem, 340

  Palmer, A. Mitchell, 223, 224

  Palmer raids, 223

  Pampianelli, Richard, 203

  Paris, Treaty of (1784), 29–30

  “Paris Is a Paradise for Coons” (Kern), 169

  Parker, Jack, 317

  Parks, Rosa, 315

  Parliament, British, 25, 26, 27

  Parton, Dolly, 334

  Passing of the Great Race, The (Grant), 157, 184

  Patten, Simon, 212, 248–49

  Paycheck, Johnny, 335

  Pearl Harbor, attack on, 270, 274, 276, 332

  Pease, Lewis, 146

  Peiss, Kathy, 115, 117, 118, 216–17, 218, 220, 228

  Penn, William, 12–13, 130

  Pennsylvania, 15, 33, 64, 130, 333, 340

  Pennsylvania Canal, 142–43

  “Pennsylvania plan” prison, 60

  Peterson, Kathleen (“K.P.”), 331

  Petrik, Paula, 107–8

  Pettijohn, Charles, 261

  Phagan, Mary, 163

  Phelan, Rev. John J., 222–23

  Philadelphia, Pa., 3, 4, 5, 8–9, 11–19, 27, 28, 31, 34, 64, 118, 131, 143, 144, 150, 160, 199–200

  Philadelphia SPHAS, 166–67, 178

  Philbrick, Edward, 85

  phrenology, 161

  Picon, Molly, 264

  Pierce, Franklin, 72

  Pike, James S., 98

  Pile, William, 87

  pimps, 124

  Pioneer Fund, 268

  pirates, 4, 17–18, 19

  Plain Counsels for Freedmen (Fisk), 81–82, 88–89

  Pleasant, Mary Ellen “Mammy,” 107

  Pleck, Elizabeth, 59

  Plymouth Colony, 48, 128–29

  Pogue, Forrest C., 271

  Poiger, Uta, 286, 288, 291

  Poitier, Sidney, 307

  Poland, 286, 293

  poll tax, 188

  Poor Richard’s Almanack, 49

  Pope, James Russell, 264

  Popenoe, Paul, 267

  Popular Science Monthly, 182, 183

  Porgy and Bess (Gershwin), 169

  pornography, 96, 122, 166, 328

  Powderly, Terence, 211

  Powell, Lawrence N., 85

  Presley, Elvis, 289, 290, 291, 292

  Prima, Louis, 193, 194–95, 200, 201, 202–3

  prisons, 59–60

  Private Maxie Reporting, 279

  “Problems of Personality Integration” (King), 296

  Procter & Gamble, 225–26

  progressive movement, 212, 213, 214, 246, 252, 267

  Prohibition, 30, 188–90, 231–32, 236

  promiscuity, 14, 34, 220–21, 222, 223, 340

  prostitutes, prostitution, 4, 6, 10–13, 16, 34, 36, 65, 96, 101–24, 117, 185, 214, 217, 227, 329

  attacks on, 122–24

  as attorneys, 108

  as breaking free of female servitude, 105

  in Chicago, 118–19

  earnings of, 104–8

  Jewish, 166

  lack of shame among, 109–14

  in New York City, 13, 104, 110

  in Philadelphia, 11–12

  racial integration and, 119–22

  as rarely punished, 11–12

  reformatories for, 123–24

  self defense by, 114–15

  Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The, 163

  Prynne, William, 127–28

  Pryor, Richard, 307

  Public Enemy, The, 232

  Public Works Administration, 254, 255

  Punch, 140–41

  Puritans, 7, 49, 115, 127–28, 130, 133

  “Push Day” in Bessemer, Ala., 320

  Quakers, 58

  Quartering Act, 25, 26

  Quattlebaum, Junius, 50

  Quicksand (Larsen), 116

  Quincy, Josiah, II, 135–36

  “race” records, 170

  Races of Europe, The (Ripley), 160

  Races of Mankind, The (Benedict), 177, 198

  racial liberalism, 313, 314

  Radical Republicans, 78, 85, 86

  ragtime, 99, 107, 172, 173, 192

  RAM Films, 262

  Ramsay, David, 31

  rapes, 59, 67–69

  Raskob, John J., 241

  Reagan, Nancy, 119

  Reagan, Ronald, 119, 280, 336

  Reckless, Walter, 118

  Reconstruction, 77–79, 81–82, 84, 86, 91, 93, 94–95, 96–99, 240, 312

  moral rules for white Americans during, 92–93

  Reconstruction, Political and Economic, 1865–1877 (Dunning), 78n

  Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution (Foner), 78

  Reconstruction and the Constitution (Burgess), 78n

  Red-Headed Woman, 233

  “red-light abatement” laws, 123

  Red Scare, 223–24

  Red Summer (1919), 186

  reformatories, 34, 123–24

  Reich, Charles, 340

  Reich, Das 242–43

  Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD), 254

  Reid, Whitelaw, 85

  Reps, John W., 264

  Republican Party, 53–54, 187, 241

  Republicans, 98, 268

  Radical, 78, 85, 86

  Reuben, David, 329

  Reverend Johnson’s Dream, 170

  Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin), 169

  Rhead, Frederick Hurten, 225

  Rhode Island, 27, 128

  rhythm and blues (R & B), 47, 310–11

  Ricards, Sherman L., 104, 107

  Rice, Dan, 42

  Rice, Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy,” 42, 46

  Richardson, Bertha, 218, 221

  Richberg, Donald, 252
/>   Riegelman, Harold, 174

  Riis, Jacob, 170

  riots, 142, 312, 321–22, 326–28

  Ripley, William Z., 160

  Ritter, Tex, 336

  Rivera, Sylvia “Ray,” 327

  Rizzo, Frank, 199–200, 202

  Roach, Hal, 262

  Road Is Open Again, The, 259

  Roback, Abraham, 175

  Roberts, Bartholomew (“Black Bart”), 17–18

  Robinson, Edward G., 232

  Robinson, Smokey, 308

  Robison, Carson, 333

  rock-and-roll, 201–2, 203, 288–93, 297, 308, 311, 337

  Rockefeller, John D., 58–59, 210

  Roediger, David, 40, 305

  Rogers, Jennie, 106

  Rogers, Will, 259–60, 262

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 118, 261, 313–14

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 50, 158, 240–69, 270, 271, 274

  Roosevelt, John, 262

  Roosevelt administration, 257, 260–61, 262, 264, 267, 269, 270, 313

  Roosevelt: A Revolutionary with Common Sense (Magers), 242

  Rorabaugh, W. J., 7

  Rosen, Morris, 237

  Rosen, Ruth, 104, 105, 123, 124

  Rosenberg, Petey, 167

  Rosenbloom, Maxie “Slapsie,” 167–68

  Ross, Barney, 168

  Ross, Edward, 183, 189, 195–96

  Ross, Ezra, 29

  Rothstein, Arnold, 230–31

  Rourke, Constance, 147

  Rowland, Chuck, 325

  Royster, Louvenia, 300–301

  Rubin, Rick, 179

  Rush, Benjamin, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33–34, 35, 64

  Ryback, Timothy W., 293

  Rykiss, Lorraine, 179

  Sachar, Howard, 166

  St. Louis, Mo., 74–75, 107

  St. Mery, Moreau de, 13, 19

  “Saint Monday,” 7

  St. Paul’s Chapel, 13

  St. Philip Benizi Church, 197–98

  St. Philip’s African Episcopal Church, 144

  Sale, Samuel, 161

  Saleski, Gdal, 174

  Salinger, Sharon V., 5, 7, 8, 9, 17

  saloons, 96, 102, 113, 120, 192, 213, 217, 229, 231

  San Francisco, Calif., 105, 107, 109, 113, 114, 120, 280

  Sanger, Margaret, 111, 267

  Sanger, William, 110

  Saturday Evening Post, 196, 224, 298

  Saturday Night Fever, 203–4

  Savannah, Ga., 29, 132

  Savannah River Anti-Slave Traffick Association, 75

  Savarese, Tom, 203

  Sbarbaro, Tony, 191

  Scarface, 232

  Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, 253

  Schmid, Julius, 111–12

  Schoenfeld, Julia, 220

  Schoepf, Johann, 15

  schools, 50, 58, 62, 80–81

  Freedmen’s Bureau and, 83, 97

  Schurz, Carl, 98

  Schwartz, Maurice, 176

  Scott, Marylyn Motherbear, 339

  Sears, David, 200

  Seattle, Wash., 106–7

  Second Continental Congress, U.S., 11, 28

  Sedran, Barney, 166

  Sedway, Moe, 236

  Segrave, Kerry, 292

  segregation, 119–20, 176, 186, 191, 313, 314–15, 316, 323

  of Italian Americans, 182

 

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