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by Taylor Branch


  Lord, Walter

  “Lord’s Prayer, The,”

  Louisiana, SCLC registration drive in

  Louisville Civic Auditorium

  love, King on

  “Love Lifted Me,”

  Loveman’s

  Lowell, James Russel

  Lowery, Joseph:

  Birmingham campaign and

  libel suit against

  Luccock, Hartfort

  Luce, Henry

  Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)

  Lucy, Autherine, University of Alabama suspension of

  Ludlow massacre

  Luke, Gospel according to Saint

  Lumumba, Patrice

  Luther, Martin

  Luthuli, Albert

  Lynching Letter

  lynchings:

  FBI investigations of

  in Monroe

  NAACP drive for legislation against

  of Parker

  of Till

  Truman’s legislation on

  Lynd, Staughton

  MacArthur, Douglas

  Macbeth (Shakespeare)

  McCall, Walter

  at Crozier Theological Seminary

  King’s competition with

  paternity suit against

  McCarran Act

  McCarthy, Joseph

  McCarthyism

  McClellan, John

  McClellan’s

  McCollum, Selyn

  McComb, Miss.:

  Freedom Ride to

  mass arrests in

  mass meetings in

  sit-in movement in

  student strike in

  voter registration in

  McComb Enterprise-Journal

  McCormack, John

  McCrory’s

  sit-in protests at

  McDaniel, Hattie

  McDew, Charles

  beating and arrest of

  imprisonment of

  Lee’s murder and

  Nonviolent High classes of

  voter registration work of

  McDonald, Billy

  McDonald, David

  McDonald, Dora

  Macdonald, Dwight

  McGill, Ralph

  McGraw, John

  McGuire, Phyllis

  Mackey, Pearl

  McKissick, Floyd

  McLaughlin, Weyman

  MacLeish, Archibald

  Macmillan, Harold

  McNair, Chris

  McNair, Denise

  McNair, Maxine

  McNamara, Robert

  Birmingham riots and

  MacNeil, Robert

  McPhatter, Clyde

  McShane, James:

  Freedom Rides and

  Meredith’s enrollment at Ole Miss

  Ole Miss riots and

  Macy, John

  Madison, James

  Madison Square Garden Crusade

  Madison Square Garden rallies

  Mafia

  Mahatma Gandhi, Horns and Halo (Jones)

  Mahavira

  Maheu, Robert

  Mahoney, William

  Mailer, Norman

  Majors, J. P.

  Makarios, Archbishop

  Makeba, Miriam

  Making of the President, 1960, The (White)

  Malcolm X

  March on Washington and

  Malone, John

  Manchester Guardian

  Manhattan Project

  Mani Bhavan

  Mankato College

  Mann, Floyd

  Freedom Rides and

  Man Nobody Knows, The (Barton)

  Mansfield, Mike

  Mantle, Mickey

  March, Fredric

  March on Washington

  apprehensions about

  civil rights legislation and

  denunciations of

  FBI on

  growing Negro militancy and

  Hollywood celebrities present at

  King’s proposal of

  King’s speech for

  Lewis’s speech for

  as mass meeting

  musical entertainment at

  planning of

  role of women in

  uniqueness of

  Marine Corps, U.S.

  Mark, Gospel according to Saint

  Markham, Dean

  Marlowe plantation

  Marne, First Battle of the

  Marshall, Burke

  Albany Movement and

  alleged Communist infiltration of SCLC and

  Birmingham campaign and

  Birmingham church bombings and

  Birmingham public school desegregation and

  Birmingham riots and

  Birmingham youth march and

  Blaik-Royall mission and

  on Civil Rights Commission report on Mississippi

  civil rights legislation and

  Freedom Rides and

  on Justice Department employment of Negroes

  King-Levison relationship and

  King’s Albany imprisonment and

  King’s Birmingham imprisonment and

  King’s negotiations with

  Lee’s murder prosecution rejected by

  Lewis’s March on Washington speech and

  March on Washington and

  Meredith’s enrollment at Ole Miss and

  Negro militancy and

  Ole Miss riots and

  routine work of

  Shreveport death threats and

  Shuttlesworth’s conviction and

  voter registration and

  Marshall, Thurgood

  King’s trials and

  Meredith case and

  Montgomery bus boycott and

  nonviolent methods opposed by

  Prayer Pilgrimage and

  Marshall Field Foundation

  Young’s work for

  Marshal Service, U.S.

  Freedom Rides and

  Greenwood voter registration and

  Meredith’s enrollment at Ole Miss and

  Ole Miss riots and

  Martin, Dean

  Martin, Louis

  Birmingham campaign and

  Martin, Louis (cont.)

  J. F. Kennedy campaign and

  J. F. Kennedy’s civil rights address and

  on J. F. Kennedy vs. Eisenhower

  King-R. Kennedy meeting and

  King’s imprisonment and

  on White House reception for Negro leaders

  Martin Theater, protests for integration of

  Marx, Karl

  King’s studies on

  Marxism, Niebuhr’s criticisms of

  Maryland Baptist Center

  Massell, Sam

  Mathews, Z. T. “Zeke,”

  Terrell County church burnings and

  voter registration meetings raided by

  Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane

  Matthew, Gospel according to Saint

  Maxwell, O. Clay

  Maxwell Air Force Base

  Mays, Benjamin

  King-Jackson conflict and

  King’s perjury trial and

  King’s recommendation of

  Montgomery bus boycott and

  Morehouse financial crisis and

  NBC elections and

  Mays, Willie

  Meader, Vaughn

  Meany, George

  Meatball

  “Mechanics of the Bus Boycott, The” (Johnson)

  “Meet the Press,”

  Meharry Medical College

  Mencken, H. L.

  Mennonite

  Menorah Medical Center

  Meredith, James Howard

  attempts to attend Ole Miss classes by

  attempts to register at Ole Miss by

  Jackson movement and

  March on Washington and

  Ole Miss application of

  Youth Freedom Fund addressed by

  Meredith, Moses “Cap,”

  Meredith v. Fair

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  Metropolitan Opera

  Miami sit-in

  Michelangelo

  Midway Congregational Church

  Miles College

  Miller, Landon

  Milwaukee Braves

  Mind in Chains, The (Moore)

  Ming, William

  Ministerial Alliance

  Minnesota, University of

  Mississippi:

  Civil Rights Commission report on

  suspension of food relief in

  voter registration laws of

  Mississippi, University of (Ole Miss)

  attempts by Negroes to enroll at

  first Negro law student admitted to

  Meredith’s application to

  Meredith’s attempts to attend classes at

  Meredith’s attempts to register at

  riots at

  Mississippi Southern College

  Miss Parker High School

  Mr. Maestro Records

  Mitchell, Clarence

  Mitchell, James P.

  Mitchell, Oscar

  Mitchell County jail

  Mize, Sidney

  Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

  Mona Lisa (Leonardo)

  Mongoose, Operation

  Monroe, Ga., lynchings in

  Monroe, Marilyn

  death of

  Montand, Yves

  Montero, Frank

  Montgomery, Ala.:

  desegregation of armed forced and

  Freedom Rides in

  illegal racial persecutions in

  image and economic status of Negroes in

  Ku Klux Klan march on

  martial law in

  Negro population of

  ordinances governing bus system of

  Rustin’s escape from

  SCLC march on

  sniper firings on buses in

  Montgomery Advertiser

  Montgomery bus boycott

  attempted betrayal of

  car pool for

  Double-P Day of

  funds raised for

  government hard line on

  government ultimatums on

  King arrested in

  King’s leadership in

  King tried for

  lessons learned from

  negotiating demands for

  Negro Christmas purchases linked to

  origins of

  spiritual commitment to

  success of

  violence after

  Montgomery City jail, King imprisoned in

  Montgomery Coliseum

  Montgomery Human Rights Council

  Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)

  alleged corruption in

  anticipated police raid on offices of

  bombing of King’s house and

  in bus boycott negotiations

  bus segregation suit and

  car pool subsidized by

  confidence in King expressed by

  court victories of

  criminal indictments against

  financial contributions to

  headquarters of

  injunctions against

  Institutes on Nonviolence and Social Change of

  King’s arrests and

  King’s trials and

  leadership of

  pacifist approach adopted by

  press investigation of

  psychological letdown experienced by

  Rustin’s affection for

  sit-in movement and

  taxi-stand bombing and

  wealth of

  Moody, John

  “Moonlight Sonata” (Beethoven)

  Moore, Amzie

  voter registration and

  Moore, Charles

  Moore, Chief

  Birmingham riots and

  Moore, Douglas

  sit-in movement and

  Wilkins’s criticism of

  Moore, William

  Freedom Walk of

  murder of

  Moose Club Park, Ku Klux Klan rally at

  Moral Man and Immoral Society (Niebuhr)

  Morehouse, Henry

  Morehouse Club

  Morehouse College

  financial crisis of

  King’s commitment to teach at

  King’s enrollment at

  King’s graduation from

  racial fear at

  School of Religion of

  tobacco program of

  Truman’s anti-lynching legislation and

  Morehouse Quartet

  Morgaine, Daniel

  Morgan, Charles

  Morgan, Juliette

  Morris Brown College

  Morrow, E. Frederick

  background of

  King-Eisenhower meeting and

  1960 elections and

  Morrow, Hugh

  Morse, Samuel F. B.

  Morsell, John

  Morton, Thruston B.

  Moses

  Johns compared with

  King compared with

  Malcolm X on

  Pritchard on

  Moses, Robert

  arrests and imprisonments of

  Atlanta University student movement and

  background of

  beating of

  federal suit filed by

  firebombing of Turnbow’s home and

  on Freedom Vote

  House testimony of

  Justice Department picket led by

  Lee’s murder and

  loyalty investigations of

  March on Washington and

  Mississippi food relief and

  Negro congressional campaigns managed by

  Nonviolent High classes of

  reputation of

  SNCC activities of

  SNCC speeches of

  trial of

  voter registration work of

  Mothers’ March

  “Motivos de Son” (Roldan)

  Moton, R. R.

  Motown Records

  Mountbatten, Lady

  Mountbatten, Lord Louis

  Mountbatten, Pamela

  Mount Lebanon Baptist Church

  Mount Moriah Baptist Church

  Mount Olive Baptist Church

  burning of

  Mathews’s raid at

  Mount Zion Baptist Church

  Mass meetings at

  “Mud Is Basic” (Johns)

  Muelder, Walter

  Muhammad, Elijah

  Murphy, Rosemary

  Murray, George

  Murrow, Edward R.

  Muste, A. J.

  Farmer and

  Lawson and

  Montgomery bus boycott and

  Rustin and

  SNCC activities of

  “My Country ’Tis of Thee,”

  Myrdal, Gunnar

  Nabrit, James

  Nagpur Times

  Namath, Joe

  Napoleon I, Emperor of France

  Narain, Jayaprakash

  Nashville, Tenn., SNCC Southwide conference in

  Nashville Christian Leadership Council

  Nashville sit-in movement

  Freedom Rides and

  humiliations of

  mass protest march of

  movie theater picketing and

  Nashville Tennessean

  Nassar, Gamal Abdel

  Nation

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

  Alabama ban against

  Albany Movement and

  in Amite County

  antagonism toward King at

  Atlanta conventions of

  Birmingham campaign and

  Brown case and

  bus segregation suits and

  Chicago convention of

  civil rights legislation and

  creation of

  criticism of

  Crusade for Citizenship and


  Detroit rally and

  Du Bois’s break with

  Farmer and

  freedom riders and

  on indictment against Du Bois

  Jackson movement and

  King active in

  King’s addresses to

  King’s allies in

  King’s Prayer Pilgrimage and

  King’s tax indictment and

  Lawson’s criticisms of

  Legal Defense Fund of

  Lewis case and

  McComb mass arrests and

  March on Washington and

  Meredith case and

  Monroe lynchings and

  Montgomery bus boycott and

  Montgomery leadership of

  Montgomery segregation rallies and

  NBC compared with

  1960 elections and

  political party alignment of

  R. R. Moton High School strike and

  SCLC and

  sit-in movement and

  testing ICC desegregation rule and

  University of Alabama riots and

  voter registration and

  Youth Councils of

  National Baptist Convention (NBC)

  King’s plans for

  presidential elections of

  schism in

  Sunday School Board of

  Sunday School Congress of

  National Broadcasting Co. (NBC)

  National Civil War Commission

  National Council of Attorneys

  National Council of Churches

  Department of Youth Work in

  National Council of Negro Women

  National Governors Conference

  National Guard:

  of Alabama

  of Georgia

  of Mississippi

  National Insurance Association (NIA)

  King’s address to

  National Maritime Union (NMU)

  National Press Club

  King’s address to

  National Selective Service System

  National Student Association (NSA)

  Native Son (Wright)

  Navy, U.S.

  Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylonia

  “Negro,”

  Negro, A Beast, The (Carroll)

  Negro, A Menace to American Civilization, The (Shufeldt)

  Negroes:

  adoption of nonviolence by

  alleged Communist associations of

  at Boston University

  college enrollment of

  country dives frequented by

  at Crozer Theological Seminary

  debate over term

  East Side vs. West Side

  economic reprisals against

  growing anger among

  at Hamilton College

  identity paradox of

  Negroes (cont.)

  image and economic status of

  jobs open to

  King on

  King’s use of term

  matriarchal tendencies in

  ministry attractive to

  post-World War II attitudes toward

  renewed hegemony of whites over

  right to religion acquired by

  Rockefellers’ gifts for education of

  temporary inferiority of

  unemployment among

  voting preferences of

  West Indian immigrants vs.

  World War I migration of

  Negro Leaders Conference on Nonviolent Integration

  Negro Ministerial Association

  Negro Newspaper Association

 

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