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The Color of Compromise

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by Jemar Tisby


  United Daughters of the Confederacy, 95

  United States

  percentages of world population,

  incarcerated persons population, 157

  presidential election, 2016, 185–89

  Unite the Right rally, 201

  Universal Negro Improvement Association

  (UNIA), 119

  urban uprisings and “law and order,” 141–43

  US Constitution, 26, 58–59, 72, 73, 75, 93, 97

  U.S. News & World Report, 157

  Vesey, Denmark, 62–63, 64–65

  Veteran’s Administration, 123

  Vicksburg (MS) Evening Post, 107

  “victim mentality,” 21

  Vietnam War, 157

  Virginia General Assembly, 25–26, 51, 86

  Voting Rights Act of 1965 (aka “Civil Rights

  Act of 1965”), 93, 155, 210

  Wallace, George, 158, 160, 164, 168

  Ware, Lawrence (black Baptist minister), 190

  War for Independence, 41, 45. See

  Revolutionary War

  Warren, Earl (chief justice), 133

  Warren, Rick, 153

  Watts riots, 141–42

  wealth gap between black and white citizens, 198

  Weary, Dolphus, 150

  “welfare queen,” 169

  Wells, Ida B. (antilynching crusader), 108, 111–12

  Wesley, John, 46, 76

  Westminster Confession of Faith, 78

  Weyrich, Paul, 165, 166

  White, Richard, 29

  White, Walter (NAACP), 108

  white evangelical view of poverty’s cause, 176

  Whitefield, George, 18, 45, 46–49, 51, 55

  white flight, 126–27

  White Flight (Kruse), 145

  “whiteness,” 39

  whites, percentage who believe in God, 20

  white supremacy. See chapter 8 ,

  “Reconstructing White Supremacy in the Jim Crow Era” (88–110); see also, 16, 18, 22, 24, 57, 75, 86, 111, 118, 129, 190, 201

  Wilberforce, William, 32

  Williamsburg, Virginia, colonial museum, 25

  Wilson, Charles Reagan (Baptized in Blood), 94–95

  Wilson, Darren, 178–79

  Wilson, Easby (black factory worker), 125–26

  Wilson, Joseph Ruggles, 101

  Wilson, Woodrow, 101, 117

  World’s Columbian Exposition, 111–12

  World War I, 117, 118

  World War II, 122, 123, 199

  Zimmerman, George, 177–78

 

 

 


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