Parting the Waters

by Taylor Branch

  Bill of Rights

  Billups, Charles

  Birdsong, Colonel

  Birmingham, Ala.:

  Blaik-Royall Mission to

  bombings and riots in

  boycotts in

  bus desegregation movement in

  Chamber of Commerce of

  civic reform movement in

  Council of Ministers of

  desegregation of public schools in

  Freedom Rides in

  SCLC convention in

  Senior Citizens Committee of

  sit-in protests in

  special elections in

  transit strike in

  Birmingham, Dave

  Birmingham Barons

  Birmingham campaign

  Birmingham campaign (cont.)

  Albany Movement compared with

  criticisms of

  delays in

  demands of

  extremist reaction to

  finances of

  fund-raising for, SCLC and

  Good Friday march in

  impact of Moore’s murder on

  Jackson movement and

  King’s book on

  King’s defense of

  march on city hall by

  march on city jail by

  March on Washington and

  mass meetings of

  mass protest march proposed by

  music of

  national phase of

  negotiations and

  Northern supporters of

  planning of

  rabbis in support of

  recruitment for

  repercussions of

  settlement accepted by

  sit-in protests of

  state injunction against

  student members of

  training volunteers for

  truces negotiated by

  for voter registration

  Birmingham jail:

  children marchers imprisoned in

  King imprisoned in

  marches on

  Birmingham Manifesto

  Birmingham News

  Birmingham Post Herald

  Birmingham Southern College

  Birmingham World

  Birmingham youth marches

  attack dogs used against

  fire hoses used against

  moratoriums on

  plotting strategy for

  stores picketed by

  Birth of a Nation, The

  Black, Hugo

  Black Codes

  Black Muslims

  “blacks,”

  Blackwell, Randolph

  Blaelock, Daryl

  Blaik, Earl:

  Birmingham church bombings and

  Birmingham mission of

  Blake, Eugene Carson:

  civil rights legislation and

  March on Washington and

  Blake, J. P.

  Blanton, Sankey

  Blayton, Jesse

  “Blest Be the Tie That Binds,”

  Block, Sam

  arrests and imprisonments of

  shooting attack on

  voter registration work of

  “Blowin’ in the Wind,”

  Blue Springs Baptist Church

  Blumberg, Albert “Doc,”

  Blumstein’s

  B’nai B’rith

  Boggs, Hale

  Bond, Julian

  Booker, Simeon

  Booker T. Washington High School

  Boothe, Charles Octavius

  Borden, Cecil

  Border Patrol, U.S.

  Freedom Rides and

  Meredith’s enrollment at Ole Miss and

  Borders, William Holmes

  Atlanta student march and

  King’s prison release negotiations and

  Monroe lynchings and

  1960 elections and

  Boston University

  King’s application to

  King’s decision to study at

  King’s enrollment at

  School of Theology of

  Bosworth, Edward Increase

  Boutwell, Albert

  Birmingham campaign and

  Birmingham church bombings and

  Birmingham public school desegregation and

  Birmingham youth marches and

  Blaik-Royall mission and

  press on

  Bowles, Chester:

  King’s imprisonment and

  1960 electons and

  Boxer Rebellion

  Boyd, H. C.

  Boynton, Amelia

  Boynton v. Virginia

  Boyte, Harry

  Braden, Anne

  Braden, Carl

  Bradlee, Ben

  Brandeis University

  Brando, Marlon

  March on Washington and

  Branton, Wiley

  Greenwood voter registration and

  King criticized by

  Mississippi food relief crisis and

  Ponder’s arrest and

  Brawley, Dr.

  Bricklayers Union

  Bridges, Lloyd

  Brightman, Edgar S.

  Brinkley, David

  Bristol, James

  Britt, Travis:

  beating of

  voter registration work of

  Britt’s, sit-in protests at

  Bronner Brothers Fall Beauty Clinic

  Brooklyn Dodgers

  Brooks, Dr.

  Brooks, Jim

  Brooks, Paul

  Freedom Walk of

  Moore’s murder and

  Broomfield, Justice

  Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

  Brown, Alfreda

  Brown, Edmund G.

  Brown, James

  Brown, Mamie

  Brownell, Herbert

  civil rights legislation and

  Little Rock crisis and

  Browning, Robert

  Brown University

  Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

  Atlanta student march and

  Communist derision toward

  Eisenhower and

  Kilpatrick on

  noncompliance with

  R. Kennedy’s agreement with

  seventh anniversary rally for

  Brumfield, Judge

  Brussels World’s Fair

  Bryan, Orrie

  Bryant, C. C.:

  arrest of

  background of

  voter registration and

  Buber, Martin

  Buchanan, Scott

  Buddha

  Buddhist crisis

  Budenz, Louis

  Bull Run, second battle of

  Bunche, Ralph

  Bundy, McGeorge

  Bureau of Narcotics

  Bureau of Prisons

  Bureau of the Budget

  Burke, Edmund

  Burke, Katherine

  Burke, Solomon

  Businessmen for Kennedy and Johnson

  Business Week

  bus segregation

  federal lawsuits against

  ICC rule on

  Supreme Court on

  see also Freedom Rides, freedom riders

  Butler, Jerry

  Butler, Mack Sim

  Butler, Paul

  Buttrick, George

  Byrd, Harry

  Byron, George Gordon, Lord

  Cahill, Thomas

  Calhoun, John C.

  Cambridge, Md., Negroes arrested in

  Campbell, D. C. “Cull,”

  Campbell, Judith

  Campbell, Will

  Camus, Albert

  Canton, Miss., CORE project in

  Caplan, Mortimer

  Capone, Al

  Carawan, Candie

  Carawan, Guy

  Carey, Gordon

  Freedom Rides and

  testing ICC desegregation rule and

  Carmichael, Stokely

  in Freedom Ride project

  imprisonment of
/>   Carnegie Hall:

  civil rights fund-raiser at

  Mississippi relief fund-raiser at

  tribute to King at

  Carpenter, C. C. Jones

  “Letter from Birmingham Jail” to

  Carrawy Methodist Hospital

  Carroll, Charles

  Carroll, Diahann

  Carter, Eugene

  Carter, James J.

  Carter, Jimmy

  Castle, Doris

  in Freedom Ride project

  Caston, Billy Jack

  Moses’s legal complaint against

  voter registration and

  Caston, Sheriff

  Castro, Fidel

  Bay of Pigs invasion and

  CIA assassination plot against

  plots to overthrow

  Soviet military aid to

  Cavanagh, Jerome

  Caverno, Joe

  CBS

  Central High School, integration of

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  Bay of Pigs invasion and

  Castro assassination planned by

  U-2 crisis and

  Chad Mitchell Trio

  Chalmers, Alan Knight

  Chamberlain, Neville

  Chandler, Gladstone

  Chappell, Fred B.

  Charles, Ray

  Charleston hotel segregation

  Charlie’s Snack Bar, demonstrations against

  Chase Manhattan

  Chatmon, Tom:

  Albany voter registration and

  background of

  indictment of

  testing ICC desegregation rule and

  Chattin, C. C.

  Checker, Chubby

  Cheek, Marion:

  C. B. King’s beating investigated by

  Ware case and

  Chennault, Claire

  Chicago, Ill.

  King’s reception in

  NAACP convention in

  Chicago, University of

  Chicago Civic Opera Building

  Chicago Crusade

  Chicago Defender

  Chicago Merchandise Mart

  Chicago Opera

  Chicago Tribune

  Chicago Urban League

  Chiffons

  Childs, Jack

  Childs, Morris

  China, People’s Republic of

  Chivers, Walter

  Christianborg Castle

  Christian Century

  Christianity:

  Gandhi Society and

  Rauschenbusch on

  Christianity and Crisis

  Christianity and the Social Crisis (Rauschenbusch)

  church:

  centrality of

  King’s criticisms of

  King’s irritation with

  Negro politics and

  slavery and

  Churchill, Sir Winston

  Church of England

  Church of St. Mary

  Citizens Bank

  Citizens Club

  Citizens for Kennedy

  Citizens Trust Company

  City College of New York

  Civil Defense

  Civil Rights Act (1957)

  Haywood County case and

  jury trial amendment to

  Section (a) of

  Section (b) of

  Title III of

  Civil Rights Act (1960)

  Civil Rights Commission

  report on Mississippi by

  civil rights movement:

  alleged Communist manipulation of

  craziness seen in

  devotion of New York Times to

  gospel music popularized by

  liberal philanthropy and

  NBC elections and

  1930s labor movement compared with

  1960 elections and

  organized labor and

  significance of name changes in

  Walker’s evaluation of

  Civil Service Commission

  Civil War

  centennial celebrations of

  Civil War Centennial Commission

  Claflin College

  Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan, The (Dixon)

  Clark, Kenneth

  Clark, Ramsey

  Clark, Septima:

  Abernathy scolded by

  citizenship classes of

  criminal conviction of

  physical attacks on King and

  sit-in movement and

  Clark College

  Classification Sermons

  Clayton, Claude

  Clement, Rufus

  Cleveland, Ohio, King welcomed in

  Clift, Montgomery

  Cobo Hall

  Coca-Cola

  Coffin, William Sloane, Jr.

  Cole, Nat “King,”

  Coleman, James P.

  Collins, Addie Mae

  Collins, Lucretia

  Collins, Sarah

  Collins Funeral Home

  “coloreds,”

  Columbia University

  Colvin, Claudette

  arrest of

  bus segregation suit and

  conviction and sentence of

  Come September

  Commerce Department, U.S.

  Committee to Defend Martin Luther King

  Committee to Support South African Resistance

  Communist International

  show trials of

  Communist Manifesto, The (Marx and Engels)

  Communist Party, U.S.

  collapse of

  Du Bois’s application to

  FBI infiltration of

  Harlem nightclubs run by

  integration opposed by

  Levison’s alleged membership in

  mass defections from

  O’Dell’s alleged ties with

  persecution of

  Randolph criticized by

  Randolph’s Youth Marches and

  Rustin’s membership in

  Communists, communism

  alleged freedom rider association with

  Hoover’s obsession with

  Communists, communism (cont.)

  J. F. Kennedy on

  King allegedly sympathetic toward

  King’s rejection of

  March on Washington involvement of

  Negroes allegedly influenced by

  1960 elections and

  racial equality practiced by

  SCLC allegedly infiltrated by

  in SNCC

  U.S. campaigns against

  “Conciliation with the American Colonies” (Burke)

  Concord Baptist Church

  Congo, riots in

  Congress, U.S.

  Eisenhower’s civil rights program and

  Kennedy’s addresses to

  Kennedy’s civil rights program and

  Kennedy’s voting rights bill and

  March on Washington and

  Negro campaigns for

  Republican civil rights package and

  Truman’s civil rights program and

  see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.

  Congressional Record

  Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

  Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

  Birmingham campaign and

  Canton project of

  Farmer’s appointment in

  financial contributions to

  Freedom Ride project of

  Freedom Walks and

  March on Washington and

  Moore’s murder and

  National Action Council of

  national recognition achieved by

  in test of ICC desegregation rule

  voter registration and

  Conley, Reverend

  Connor, Eugene “Bull,”

  Bethel Baptist Church bombing and

  Birmingham boycotts and

  Birmingham campaign and

  Birmingham riots and

  Birmingham youth marches an
d

  Freedom Rides and

  Good Friday march and

  image problems of

  King’s imprisonment and

  political challenges to authority of

  replacement of

  SCLC Birmingham convention and

  Constitution, U.S.

  First Amendment to

  Fifth Amendment to

  Fourteenth Amendment to

  Fifteenth Amendment to

  Cook, Eugene

  Cook, Samuel

  Cook, Tom

  Cooke, Alastair

  Coolidge, Calvin

  Cooper, Gary

  Cooper, Gordon

  Corinthians

  Cory Methodist Church

  Cotton, Dorothy

  Birmingham campaign and

  on People-to-People tours

  Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)

  founding of

  Covington and Burling

  Cowling, E. L.

  Cox, Courtland

  Cox, Harold

  Cox, Harvey

  Craft, Edd

  Credo (Plato)

  Crenshaw, Jack:

  Colvin case and

  Montgomery bus boycott and

  Crisis

  Criterion Club

  Crosby, Bing

  Cross, John

  Cross, Susan

  Crozer Theological Seminary

  classical liberalism of

  King’s enrollment at

  practice preaching courses at

  racial harmony at

  Cruit, George

  Crusade for Citizenship

  Crusader Without Violence (Reddick)

  Crystals

  Cuba:

  communism in

  Soviet military shipments to

  Cuban missile crisis

  Current, Gloster B.

  Jackson movement and

  Currier, Stephen

  Curry, Izola Ware

  Cushing, Richard Cardinal

  Daily Worker

  Daily World

  Daley, Richard

  Kennedy campaign and

  NAACP addressed by

  on Negro militancy

  Dallas County, Ala.

  voting rights violations in

  Dallas County Voters League

  Danville, Va.

  racial violence in

  Dartmouth College

  Daves, Joan

  David, King of Israel

  Davis, Ben

  Communist party background of

  Davis, Edward “Big Two”:

  Abernathy’s life threatened by

  background of

  trial of

  Davis, George W.

  Davis, Jefferson

  Davis, Sammy, Jr.

  SCLC fund-raiser of

  at White House reception

  Davis, Vivian McCoy

  Dawson, Curtis

  Dawson, William

  De, S. K.

  “Death of Evil” (King)

  Declaration of Independence

  Dee, Ruby

  Defense Department, U.S.

  Bay of Pigs invasion and

  Birmingham riots and

  FBI investigation of King and

  Freedom Rides and

  Meredith’s enrollment at Ole Miss and

  defense industries, racial discrimination in

  defense policy:

  of J. F. Kennedy

  1960 elections and

  de Gaulle, Charles

  De Kalb County, Ga., King’s traffic case in

  De Kalb County jail, King’s transfer from

  Delaney, Hubert T.

  DeLee, Stuart