Tanzania
Tate, Lola Bell
Tatum, Art
Taylor, Elizabeth (actress)
Taylor, Elizabeth (author)
Taylor, Maxwell
Taylor, Telford
Taylor, Thomas
Teachers for Integrated Schools
Teamsters Union
television shows, integration of
Temple Beth El
Temple Beth Israel, Klan attack on
Temple Emanu-El
Temple Israel
Temple KAM
Temple Mount
Temporary S, Office of Education offices in
Tennessee Council on Human Relations
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Terrell, Ernie
Terry, Peggy
Tet offensive
Texas
Texas Western University
Thagard, Werth
Thailand
Thant, U, Secretary-General
Thich Nhat Hanh
letter to MLK from
MLK’s meeting with
Third Army
Third National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women
Thomas, Art
Thomas, Daniel
Thomas, Danny
Thomas, Ernest
Thomas, Eugene
Thomas, Hank
Thomas, Norman
Thomas Jefferson Hotel
Thompson, Hugh
Thrash, Demp
Three Years in Mississippi (Meredith)
Throckmorton, John
Thunderball
Thurman, Howard
Thurmond, Strom
Tiananmen Square
Tidwell, Richard “Peanut,”
Tiger Force platoon
Tijerina, Reies López
Till, Emmett
Tillinghast, Muriel
Time,
Tito, Marshal
Tobey, Mrs. Charles
“To Fulfill These Rights” conference
To Huu
Tolstoy, Leo
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Tonight Show
Toolen, Thomas
Torch Motel
Tower, John
Toynbee, Arnold
Tracy, Spencer
Trammell, Seymore
Travers, Mary
Treasury Department, U.S.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Medicine Creek (1854)
Trickem Fork, Ala.
Trotsky, Leon
Troy X
Truman, Bess
Truman, Harry
MLK called troublemaker by
Selma march criticized by
Truman Library
Trumbull, John
Trumbull Park Homes
Tucker, Charles
Tulane University
“turnaround march” see ministers’ march to Montgomery
Turner, Albert
Turner, Calvin
Turner, Carl
Tuskegee, Ala.
federal response to Younge death in
voter registration clashes in
Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee Institute Advancement League
Tutwiler Hotel
unemployment reforms
Ungar, Sanford
Union Carbide
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Union Theological Seminary
Unitarian Church, Unitarians
and March to Montgomery
in Selma courthouse stand off
Unitarian-Universalist Association
United Auto Workers
United Church of Christ
United Nations
United Nations Church Center
United Packinghouse Workers
United Rubber Workers Hall
United States v. United Mine Workers
Unruh, Jesse
Upham, Judith
UPI
Upper Volta
Urban League
“U.S. City, The,”
U.S. Steel
Valenti, Jack
“Valley of the Black Pig, The” (Yeats)
Valluy, Jean-Etienne
Vance, Cyrus
Van Deerlin, Lionel
vanden Heuvel, William
Vanderbilt University
Vann, John Paul
Varner, Virginia
Vatican
Vaughn, Willie
Vermont
Vespasian, Emperor of Rome
Vice Lords
Victoria, Queen of England
Victory Baptist Church
Vietminh independence party
Vietnamese Communist Party
Vietnam National Teach-In
Vietnam Summer
Vietnam War
administration’s projections on future of
advice for LBJ from Wise Men on
airborne brigades in
Bond on
Cabinet Room meetings on
and call for extra draftees
casualties from Ia Drang Valley in
casualty count from
Coretta King’s speech in protest of
duration of
FBI investigation on MLK stance on
Fulbright hearings on
Goldberg’s meetings with MLK on
intensification of air campaign in
journalists in
LBJ’s call to MLK on
LBJ’s concern over escalation of
LBJ’s growing doubts over outcome of
LBJ’s presidential address on
in LBJ’s State of the Union
LBJ turn from escalation policy for
McNamara’s defection from administration policy on
marines deployed to
media coverage of
media leaks on
MLK call to LBJ about
MLK’s public statements on
MLK’s Riverside address on
MLK urges peace negotiation in
1966 Christmas bombing pause in
North Vietnamese troop escalation in
peace talks sought for
public focus shifted from civil rights to
public polls on
public protests against, see antiwar movement
public reaction to LBJ policy in
racial causes overshadowed by
Reagan on
religious leaders on; see also CALCAV
renewed bombing announced by LBJ in
RFK’s proposal to suspend bombing in
Rusk’s congressional testimony on
seen by MLK as secondary cause
shift in position of administration about
Six Day War impact on protests of
Soviet weapons in
televised debates on
Tet holiday truce in
trade union hostility to critics of
troop escalations in
U.S. embassy compound attack in
U.S. troops as haunted by violence of
see also antiwar movement; Tet offensive; specific battles and operations
Village Voice
Violence in the City—An End or a Beginning?
Virginia
Virginia Military Institute
Virginia State College
Virginia Supreme Court
Vivian, C. T.
Voice of America
Volpe, John
Vo Nguyen Giap
Voter Education Project
Voting Rights Act (1965)
elimination of literacy tests and
enforcement of
MLK’s call to LBJ about
passage of
poll tax debate and
signing ceremony for
Vreeland, Diana
Vu Thi Vinh
Wachtel, Harry
Walker, Clifton
Walker, Earline
Walker, Hal
Walker, Robert
Walker, Tillie
Walk
er, William
Walker, Wyatt Tee
Walker’s Café
Walker v. City of Birmingham
Wallace, George
appointment with LBJ sought by
clashes over Selma preparations between LBJ and
LBJ meeting with
preparations for final Selma to Montgomery March of
presidential ambitions of
Selma to Montgomery March banned by
Wallace, Lurleen
as governor of Alabama
gubernatorial race of
Wallace, Mike
Wallace, Perry
Wall Street Journal
Walter, Elizabeth
Walter, Francis
Walton, Robert
WAOK (radio station)
War Department, U.S.
Ware, Bill
Ware, Virgil
War on Poverty
Warren, Earl
Warren Avenue Congregational church
Warren Commission
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, Cynthia
Washington, D.C.
Washington, George
Washington Cathedral
Washington Monument, antiwar protest at
Washington National Cathedral
Washington Post
Washington Star
Washington v. Lee
Waskow, Arthur
Watson, Tom
Watts, Anderson
Watts, C. H.
Watts riots
federal response to
inquiry into
Kerner Commission report on
LBJ’s call with MLK on
leadership struggles during
media coverage of
mosque attack during
and rumors of national riots
Wayne, John
Wayne State University
Weaver, Robert
Webb, John
Webb, Sheyann
Webb v. Board of Education of Chicago
Weightman, Phil
Weinraub, Bernard
Weinstein, Jacob
Welch, Robert
Wells, Samuel
Welsh, Anne Morrison
Wesley, Cynthia
Wesleyan college
West, Alice
West, Lonzy
West, Rachel
Western Alabama Railroad
Western Wall
Westminster Neighborhood Association
Westmoreland, William
What Happened to the Riot Report?
Wheeler, Earle
Wheelwright, Farley
When Then Must We Do? (Tolstoy)
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (King)
Where’s the Rest of Me? (Reagan campaign biography)
WHHY (radio station)
Whiskey Rebellion (1792)
White, Ben Chester
White, Gardenia
White, Lee
White, “Taul Paul,”
White, Virginia
White, Walter
White, William S.
White Chapel Funeral Home
Whitehall Induction Center
White House:
demonstrators picketing at
mobilization protests at
sit-in staged at
White House Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity
White House Conference on Natural Beauty
White v. Crook,
Whitman, Charles
Who’s Who
Wickenden, Elizabeth
Wicker, Tom
Wilberforce College
Wilcox County, Ala.
see also Camden, Ala.
Wiley, George
Wiley, Jean
Wilkins, Collie LeRoy
Wilkins, Roger
Wilkins, Roy
Williams, Annie Mae
Williams, Aubrey
Williams, Bernabe
Williams, Edward Bennett
Williams, Eugene
Williams, Hosea
anti-Semitic comments of
drunk driving charge of
and FBI SCOPE investigation
rivalry with Bevel of
Williams, Jimmy
Williams, John Bell
Williams, John Sharp
Williams, Monroe
Williams, Peggy
Williams, Robert
Williams, Roy
Williams, Sam
Willis, Benjamin
Wilmore, Jacques
Wilson, A. W.
Wilson, Orlando
Wilson, Woodrow
Winchell, Walter
Winnetka, Ill.
Wirtz, Bill
Wisconsin University
Wise, Robert
Wise, Stanley
Wise Men
LBJ meetings with
position switch of
Witherspoon, Estelle
Witt, Gerald
Wofford, Harris
Wolf, Eric
women:
in antiwar movement
equal opportunity rights and
in final March to Montgomery
jury reform and
in Lowndes County movement
in ministers’ march to Montgomery
role in Negro family structure of
in Selma campaign
see also equal rights
Women Strike for Peace
Wood, Elizabeth
Wood, Georgia
Wood, Virgil
Woodruff, Robert
Woodruff, Sheriff
Woodward, C. Vann
World Bank
World Council of Churches
World Series
World War I
World War II
Wright, Marian
Wright, Richard
Wurf, Jerry
Wylie, Chris
Yaméogo, H. E. Maurice
Yancey, William Lowndes
Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge
Ybarra, Sam
Yeats, William Butler
Yoder, Edward
Yom Kippur
Yorty, Sam
Young, Andrew
Young, John
Young, Vincent
Young, Whitney
Youngblood, Rufus
Younge, Sammy
Yugoslavia
Zellner, Bob
Zellner, Dorothy
Zhou Enlai
Zimbabwe
Zimmerman, Donald
Zion’s Chapel Methodist church
PHOTO CREDITS
The Ratner Center for the Study of Conservative Judaism, Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS): 1; Larry Burrows/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images: 2; AP/Wide World Photos: 3, 27, 28, 29, 39; © Bettmann/Corbis: 4, 11, 37; © John F. Phillips/ www.johnphillipsphotography.com: 5, 6, 20, 22; Frank Dandridge/Life Magazine: 8; © James H. Karales: 7; © Ivan Massar: 9; © 1978 Matt Herron/TAKE STOCK: 10, 12; Alabama Department of Public Safety: 13; LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto: 14, 17, 18, 38; LBJ Library: 15; Boston Globe: 16; Courtesy of Judith Upham: 19; Federal Bureau of Investigation: 21; © Bob Fitch Photo: 23, 24, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 40; John Lewis Tweedle, Jr. Gift of Mrs. Dianne B. Tweedle and Miisha Tweedle. Courtesy of the DuSable Museum of African American History: 25, 26; LBJ Library photo by Robert Knudsen: 36; © Brig Cabe: 41; Jack E. Cantrell / Courtesy of the Mississippi Valley Collection: 42; Barney Sellers / The Commercial Appeal: 43, 44.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Taylor Branch is the bestselling author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954a15163 (which won the Pulitzer Prize for History) and Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963a15165. Branch has won almost every major award. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, Christina Macy.
Photographic Insert
1
Two paths to freedom. On the third try, March 21, 1965, Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King, Maurice Eisendrath, and Abraham Heschel (front row, left to right, from nun) step off from Sel
ma, Alabama, in a nonviolent march to Montgomery for the right to vote.
2
That same month, Marines lead the first U. S. combat units ashore at Danang to secure a non-Communist South Vietnam.
3
On “Bloody Sunday,” March 7, 1965, Alabama State Troopers and a sheriff’s posse in clouds of tear gas trample the first attempted voting rights march out of Selma.
4
Registrar Carl Golson rebukes petitioners led by King, Abernathy (behind finger), and SNCC Chairman John Lewis (right of King) in Lowndes County, between Selma and Montgomery, where no black citizen had voted in the twentieth century.
5
Outside Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, a helmeted sheriff’s posse blockades those who have answered King’s call to complete the voting rights march.
6
Behind a “Berlin Wall” imposed by Alabama authorities, marchers sing freedom songs in a round-the-clock vigil.
7
After a week of political upheaval, King watches from Selma as President Lyndon Johnson endorses the voting rights movement in a speech to Congress.
8
Under court-ordered federal protection, the march covers 54 miles over five days, led here by King (in white cap), Coretta King, James Bevel, John Lewis (behind and to right), and Ivanhoe Donaldson (below flagpole, in boots), with Andrew Young and James Orange (far left).
9
As marchers stretch out from Selma into Lowndes County by day.
10
Jubilant local residents greet the procession along Highway 80.
11
Beneath the dome of Alabama’s capitol, where Gov. George Wallace watches behind drawn blinds, a great host completes the march to Montgomery on March 25, 1965.
12
Rosa Parks speaks to the crowd before King’s address on the triumphs and pitfalls of the modern civil rights movement.
13
Viola Liuzzo of Detroit completes the march, but is bushwhacked that night while driving through Lowndes County.
14
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, President Johnson, and Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach announce four arrests one day after the Liuzzo murder (left to right), with Hoover concealing that an informant among the suspects had received FBI clearance to join the assault.
15
Landmarks of 1965 crest with approval cere-monies for Medicare on July 30 (LBJ with Harry Truman).
16
“No section of the country can boast of clean hands in the area of brotherhood,” King tells the Massachusetts legislature on April 22, 1965 , exploring sites for a northern campaign.
17
The Voting Rights Act on August 6 (LBJ with Abernathy and King).
18
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