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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