Community Relations Service, 166
Congress, US
anti-lynching law, 16
Fair Employment Practice Committee, 47
Neutrality Acts, 29
poll tax, 46
racial segregation, 151
Congress of Industrial Organizations, 44
Congress of Racial Equality, 130
Congressional Record, 97
Connor, Eugene “Bull,” 131, 132, 133, 158–160, 162, 166
conservatism
of A. C. Lee, xviii, 7–8, 40–47, 56, 57
Black Belt-Big Mule conservatives, 43, 141
or liberalism, H. Lee and, 59–61
conservative intellectual movement, 91–92
Conservative Manifesto, 40
Cooper, Gary, 128
Coughlin, Father, 21
council on human relations, 67
Counterpoint, 177
Crain, Maurice, xiii–xvi, 73, 95, 99, 101, 102, 128, 130, 134, 175, 182
Crimson-White, 48, 51, 58–59
Crosby, Bing, 128
Dabney, Virginia, 91
Dailey, Nelle, 24
Davidson, Donald, 91–93
Davis, Jefferson, 35
de Katzenbach, Nicholas, 178
Declaration of Constitutional Principles. See Southern Manifesto
Dees, Homer, 24
DeGraffenried, Ryan, 144
Delbanco, Nicholas, 102
Democratic Party, 9, 141
desegregation
resistance to, 77–81, 84
of University of Alabama, 75–77, 76 (photo), 94–95, 106, 132
White Citizens Council and, 81–85
See also racial segregation; school segregation
DeWolf, L. Harold, 67–68
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, 67
Dixiecrats, 88
Dixon, Frank, 53
Dos Passos, John, 44
Duckett, Al, 170
Durick, Joseph, 169–170
Eastland, James, 79
Eckford, Elizabeth, 119
economic issues, 44
Eisenhower, Dwight, 93, 97
elections
campaign of 1962, 143–144
governor’s race of 1958, 107–109
mayor’s race of 1963, 158–160
probate judge race of 1940, 22–25
electrification programs, 7, 25
Elliott, John Lovejoy, 104
Emert, Oliver, 154
Engelhardt, Sam, 78, 79, 83, 84, 109
Esquire, 176
Everything’s Made for Love in This Man’s World (Boykin), 37–38
Ezell, Brown, 11–12
Ezell, Frank, 11–12
Ezell case, 114
Fair Employment Practices Committee, 45, 47, 66
Fair Labor Standards Act, 36–39, 41
Farmer, James, 130, 133
Faubus, Orval, 109, 111
Faulkner, Jimmy, 57–58, 107, 108, 110
Faulkner, William, 15–16, 93–95, 99, 116, 135
on southern racial crisis, 94–95
FBI, 131, 170
Fear Strikes Out (film), 128
federal courts, 111–112
Finch, Atticus. See under Go Set a Watchman, To Kill a Mockingbird
Finch, Frances Cunningham (mother), 5
biographical information, 32
mental health problems of, 33
as mother, 32–33
Folsom, Jim, 49–50, 52, 53, 82, 83, 108, 143–144
Foote, Horton, 128, 129, 135–139, 145–148, 146 (photo), 154
Ford, Henry, 28
Fountain, M. M., 22–25
Fourteenth Amendment, 86, 87
France, 29
Freedom of Choice legislation, 158
Freedom Riders, 130–133. See also civil rights
Freeman, Douglas Southall, 4
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, xiv, 99
Gandhi, Mahatma, 27
Gardner, Tom, 110
Genovese, Eugene, 99
George, Walter, 43, 89
Gerard, Philip, 149, 149 (photo)
Gettysburg Address (Lincoln), 164
GI Bill, 49
Go Set a Watchman (H. Lee), 34, 61
activist Supreme Court, 85–86
Alexandra, 74
Atticus, 73–74
Atticus as good parent, 114
Atticus as Jeffersonian Democrat, 89–90, 93
Atticus at White Citizens’ Council gathering, 74, 79, 80, 96
Atticus Finch, 63
Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird versus, 102–105, 172–173
Atticus on white rule, 92
Atticus’s black suffrage discussion with Jean Louise/Scout, 79
Atticus’s Brown decision discussion with Jean Louise/Scout, 85–86, 89
Atticus’s citizenship discussion with Jean Louise/Scout, 89
Atticus’s racial segregation discussion with Jean Louise/Scout, 96–99
Atticus’s racism, 96–99
Atticus’s saving of Jem and Jean Louise/Scout from racial hysteria, 119
Atticus’s school segregation discussion with Jean Louise/Scout, 76–77
Atticus’s states’ rights discussion with Jean Louise/Scout, 86
Atticus’s vote for Eisenhower, 93
Atticus’s White Citizens’ Council discussion with Jean Louise/Scout, 83–85
Brown decision in, 85–86, 89, 117
Calpurnia, 98
Carter as model for Grady O’Hanlon, 80, 84
conservative worldview in, 91
defense of conservative segregationists from liberal North, 139
description of, 73–74
desegregation in, 75–77
failure of, xviii
family home sale, 63
fictional minister modeled on Rev. Whatley in, 64, 68
Grady O’Hanlon, 143
H. Lee’s choice of Atticus Finch as name of father/lawyer, xiv
H. Lee’s efforts to rewrite, 176–177, 177–178
H. Lee’s interviews re:, 176–177
Henry Clinton, 73–74, 84–85, 119
Jean Louise/Scout, 39, 63, 73–74
Jean Louise/Scout on how northern newspapers covered southern racial matters, 95–96
Jean Louise/Scout seeing Atticus at White Citizens’ Council gathering, 74, 79, 96
Jean Louise/Scout’s anger at Atticus Finch, 117
Jean Louise/Scout’s callowness, 93
Jean Louise/Scout’s internal dialogue with imagined northern audience, 96
Jean Louise/Scout’s moral outrage, 178
Jean Louise/Scout’s reaction to Atticus’s racism, 96–99
Jean Louise/Scout’s reconciliation with Atticus, 99
Jean Louise/Scout’s respect for father, 116–117
limitations of, 99
Macon County as model for Abbot County, 79
Millsap as inspiration for William Willoughby, 25
origin of Atticus Finch character, xiii–xvii
publication, xiv–xviii, 106
racial politics, 75–77
resistance in, xviii–xix, 75–77, 77
school segregation in, 118–119
similarities between To Kill a Mockingbird and, 73–75
similarities to H. Lee’s real life, 73–75
as slap in face of family and friends, 112
Southern Manifesto as model for racial integration discussion between Atticus and Jean Louise/Scout, 87, 89
submission of, 101
Uncle Jack, 74
Uncle Jack and mother of Jean Louise/Scout, 98
Uncle Jack mourning Atticus’s loss of traditionalism, 177
Uncle Jack on Brown decision to Jean Louise/Scout, 92
Uncle Jack on Jean Louise/Scout’s relationship to Atticus, 105
Uncle Jack on novel’s real message, 98
Uncle Jack’s conservative worldview, 91
Uncle Jack’s defense of white southerner caught “in the middle of a rev
olution,” 95
Uncle Jack’s explanation of KKK to Jean Louise/Scout, 121
Uncle Jack’s explanation of southern politics and history to Jean Louise/Scout, 96
Uncle Jack’s Jeffersonianism discussion with Jean Louise/Scout, 89–90
Uncle Jack’s sketch of conservative worldview for Jean Louise/Scout, 177
White Citizens’ Council in, 74, 77, 79, 80, 83–85, 92, 96
Golitzen, Alexander, 140, 154
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), xiv
government spoils, 20
Grant, Cary, 129
Grant, Hugh G., 83
Great Britain, 28, 29
Great Depression, 20, 41, 45
Gregory, Dick, 158
Gruber, Bronko, 179
Halberstam, David, 77
Hall, Grover C., Jr., 77
Hall, Grover C., Sr., 8, 77
Hamilton, Alexander, 91
Hare, F. W., 10
Harper, William W., 33
Harper & Brothers, xiv, 99
Harris, Roy, 83
Hayes, Harold, 176
Heflin, “Cotton Tom,” 42, 103
Highlander Folk School, 50
Hill, Lister, 34–35, 42, 103
History of Alabama (Pickett), 4–5
History of the 15th Alabama (Oates), 4
Hitler, Adolf, 26, 27, 28–29, 97
Hohoff, Tay, xvi, 101–102, 104
Hollywood Guilds Festival Committee, 180
Hood, James, 178
Horton, James E., Jr., 17–18
Horton, Myles, 50–51
Howell, Clark, 26
Hudson, Rock, 129
Huntingdon College, 33–34, 47, 68
Hurston, Zora Neale, 101–102
Huston. John, 128
I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition, 91
Indian uprisings, 4–5
Industrial News Review, 43–44, 58
International Rotary Club, 132
interposition, 88–89
interstate travel
segregation and, 130
Intruder in the Dust (W. Faulkner), 15–16, 94
isolationism, 28–29
J. B. Lippincott, xv, xvi, 101
“The Jackassonian Democrat” (H. Lee), 57
Jefferson, Thomas, 90, 91, 103
Jeffersonianism, 89–90
Jewish persecution, 27
Jim Crow law and politics, xix, 1, 2, 19, 45, 93, 98, 114, 117, 138, 160, 168, 170, 178
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, 133
Johnson, Frank, 142–143
Johnson, Hugh, 28
Johnson, Lyndon, 88, 166, 171
Kallen, Horace M., 50
Kasper, John, 80
Katz, Meyer, 27
Katz Department Store, 27
Keble, John, 184
Kelly, Riley, 111–112, 113–114, 130
Kennedy, John F., xiv, 160, 171–172
Kennedy, Robert, 131, 160
Kennedy administration, 131, 181
Killers of the Dream (L. Smith), 116, 167
Kilpatrick, James J., 88
King, A D., 180
King, Martin Luther, Jr., xix, 50, 67–68, 79, 115, 130, 131, 163 (photo), 180
arrest and jailing of, 163–164
assassination attempts against, 81
assassination of, 169–170
Atticus as example of strength of moral force and, 170–171
Birmingham campaign and, 159–164
faith in power of moral witness and, 170–172
FBI wiretap and, 170
H. Lee and, 171
To Kill a Mockingbird and, 165
“Letter from Birmingham Jail,” 164–170, 181
nonviolence and, 170
Why We Can’t Wait, 164–165, 170
See also civil rights
Kirk, Russell, 92
KKK. See Ku Klux Klan
Knox, Frank, 26
Kristallnacht, 27
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), xviii, 27, 42, 51, 58, 77–78, 80–81, 129, 130–133, 142, 145–146
attack on Freedom Riders by, 130–132
boiling frog and, 111
Citizens’ Councils and, 105, 106, 107, 108–109, 111
King and, 165, 166
militant racism and, 110–113
racial integration of Monroeville Christmas parade and, 120–122
resistance and, 111
segregationists and, 176
See also racism
labor law. See Fair Labor Standards Act
labor unions, 38, 40, 44–45, 65
Lamar, Horace James, 46
Lancaster, Burt, 155
Lazenby, Harry, 82
League of Nations, 28
Lee, Alice Finch (sister), 4, 32, 61, 63, 68, 73, 111, 148, 183
as lawyer, 33
Lee, Amasa Coleman (aka A. C.; Coley), 62 (photo), 111, 112, 140, 162
ailments of, 74
attributes associated with Atticus and, 8–9
as Black Belt voter, 40
Boswell Amendment and, 53, 56
burdens of family, church, and community and, 7
children of, 5
civil rights and, 45–47
conservatism of, xviii, 7–8, 40–47, 56, 57
death of wife and son of, 61–63
Democratic Party and, 9
distaste for practice of criminal law by, 11–12
divergence from Atticus character and, 16
economic issues and, 44
as editor of Monroe Journal, xvii, 3–4, 7–9, 42
editorial, “Are We Headed for Statism?”, 44
editorial, “Free Enterprise Medicine,” 44
editorial, “The Great Internal Problem,” 44
editorial, “Liberty’s Darkest Hour,” 26
editorial, Millsap, 25
editorial, “Planned State Leads to Depotism,” 44
editorial, “The Present Need for Conservatism,” 41
editorial, “Private Enterprise Must Be Saved,” 44
editorial, “Private Industry at Crossroads,” 44
editorial, “A Truly Great Man Passes,” 12
editorial, “The Truth Shall Make Us Free,” 24
editorial, “What Is Capitalism?”, 44
editorial, “What Is Liberalism Today?”, 90
editorial, “What We Can Expect of Labor,” 44
editorials, 3–4, 9–10, 19–20, 23–24
editorials, Alabama newspaper, 44
editorials, anti-New Deal, xviii, 34–47
editorials, Industrial News Review, 43–44, 58
editorials, Jeffersonian ideals, 90
editorials, Long’s political dictatorship, 20–22, 24
editorials, political corruption, 155
editorials, World War II, 25–30
editorials and conservative ideals, 56, 57
editorials at age 64, 34–35
emotional rift between H. Lee and, 56, 57
Ezell case and, 11–12, 114
foreign matters and, 26–27
fragility of Law and order and, 15–16
Franklin Roosevelt and, 9
government spoils and, 20
Great Depression and, 41
H. Lee as caregiver to, 74
H. Lee’s fiction, as inspiration for, xvii–xviii, xix–xx, 8–9, 19, 25, 155
H. Lee’s Pulitzer Prize and, 130
H. Lee’s relationship with, xvii, xviii, 52, 55, 56, 57, 60, 63, 64
on H. Lee’s publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, 123
heart attack and death of, 74, 144
Huey Long and, 9
ideological turn of, 44–45
Indian uprisings and, 4–5
isolationism and, 28–29
Jewish persecution and, 27
Ku Klux Klan and, 42
labor unions and, 40, 44–45, 65
as law partner, 5–6
on liberalism, 51–52
Lindbergh and, 28
lynch mobs and, 11–12, 12–18
on meaning of conservatism, 41
as member of Monroe County Bank board of directors, 35
as Methodist layman, 6, 12, 40, 64–69
Millsap’s political dictatorship and, 22–25
mother’s choice of name and, 6–7
Neal lynching and torture and, 13–15, 16
northern mockery, condescension, or suspicion and, 16–18
parenting skills of, 31–33, 34
parents and siblings of, 6–7, 13, 14
as pastoral relations committee chairman, 65, 66–67
Peck and, 136
personal appearance of, 9–10
personal morality of, 41
personal qualities of, 19
personality of, 5, 8–9
as pillar of community, 7
pocket watch as memento to Peck and, 155
political bosses and, 20
political corruption and, 19–22
political dictatorships and, 20–22, 22–25
political races in 1938 and, 42–43
as politician, 7–8
poll tax and, 46
quarrel between liberal Rev. Whatley and, 64–69
racial integration and, xviii–xix
racial integration of Monroeville Christmas parade and KKK and, 121
relationship between children and, 63
relationship between grandchildren and, 63
Roosevelt and, 29
Roosevelt’s New Deal and, 34–47, 103
sale of family home by, 62–63
sale of Monroe Journal by, 57–58
as sawmill clerk, 5
Scottsboro controversies and, 17–18, 45
as self-educated, 4–5, 19
settling of family in Monroeville and, 7
Sheffield case and, 10–11, 16–17
Southern Agrarians and, 91
states’ rights and, 46
threat to white rule and, 45
Vanity Fair and, 65
views on intersection of church and politics by, 65
voting rights and, 45–46
white supremacy and, 46
wife of, 5
Wilson and, 28
World War I and, 28
as young man, 6 (photo)
Lee, Cader A. (paternal grandfather), 4
Lee, Edwin, Jr. (nephew), 62
Lee, Edwin Coleman (brother), 5, 32, 62 (photo)
death of, 61–63
funeral of, 64, 65
marriage of, 58
Lee, Frances (mother), 62 (photo)
death of, 61–62
mental illness of, 61
terminal cancer of, 61
Lee, Harper, 146 (photo), 149 (photo)
A. C. Lee as inspiration for fiction of, xvii–xviii, xix–xx, 8–9, 19, 25, 155
A. C. Lee’s pocket watch as memento to Peck and, 155
A. C. Lee’s relationship with, xvii, xviii, 52, 55, 56, 57, 60, 63, 64
acts of rebelliousness by, 59
advice to young writers by, 184
ambivalence about decent white southerners and, 166
Anglophilism of, 59, 60, 184
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