Henderson, James, 79
Henderson, Vicki, 26
Henry, Patrick, 25
Highlander Folk School, 55
Hill, Bernice, 43, 73
Hill, Wiley, Jr., 44–45
Holt Street Baptist Church, 61, 64, 65, 92
Hughes, Langston, 3
Hutchinson Street Baptist Church, 48, 51, 98
J. J. Newberry’s department store, 16
James, A. C., 86, 89
Jet magazine, 80
Jim Crow segregation, 3–4, 4–6, 6, 16, 17, 43, 55, 72, 107
on buses, 6–9, 28, 39, 54, 85, 95
in schools, Supreme Court decision on, see Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Johnson, Edwina, 8
Johnson, Frank M., Jr., 77, 83, 91, 92, 93, 120n
Johnson, Geneva, 8
Johnson, H. H., 12, 14, 74–75, 89, 93
after Claudette’s arrest, 34, 35, 39–40
indictment as boycott leader of, 82
at mass meeting, 74
Johnson, Margaret, 30
Johnson, Marshall, 8
Jordan, Rosa, 97
Judge, The (Sikora), 96, 120n
“Jump Jim Crow” (song), 4
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1, 8, 61, 61, 63, 79, 80–81
arrest of, 71
bombing of home of, 71, 80, 98
Browder v. Gayle trial and, 83–87
after Claudette’s arrest, 40–41
Claudette’s conversation with, 99
elected president of Montgomery Improvement Association, 62, 66
on first integrated bus, 95–96, 96
indictment and trial as boycott leader of, 81, 81, 94–95
at mass meetings, 61, 62, 65, 69, 71, 74
in meetings with city and bus company officials, 54–55
on Reeves case, 23, 115–16n
King Hill Recreation Center, 18
Knabe, Walter, 84–88, 120n
Korean War, 53
Kress’s five-and-ten, 17
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 34, 74, 98
Langford, Charles, 88
Larkin, Annie, see Price, Annie Larkin
Lawrence, Josie, 26–27, 58
Lightning Route trolley line, 7
Lincoln, Abraham, 13, 83
Lincoln-Douglas debates, 26
lynchings, 53
Lynne, Seybourn, 83, 91
Magna Carta, 25
Makeba, Awele, 101
Malcolm X, 29
Mama Sweetie, 13, 14, 79, 89, 93
McDonald, Susie, 84
McDougall, Curtiss, 49
McNear, C. J., 40, 89
Mr. Comedian (radio show), 16
Mobile, segregated buses in, 7
Montgomery Advertiser, 47, 58, 69, 78, 79, 91, 96, 98, 103
Montgomery Circuit Court, 49
Montgomery City Council, 80
Montgomery City Lines, 8–9, 39, 42, 62, 65, 69
arrests of black passengers of, 29–32, 33, 39–40, 43–45, 53–55
boycott of, see bus boycott
integration of, 96–98, 106
lawsuit challenging segregation of, see Browder v. Gayle
meetings between black leaders, city officials, and representatives of, 38–39, 54–55
Montgomery Fair department store, 43
Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), 62, 66–67, 70, 72, 73, 81, 94, 95
Montgomery Juvenile Court, 44
Morgan, Juliette, 69
Nashville, segregated buses in, 7
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 27, 43, 59, 72, 94
funds raised for Claudette’s appeal by, 48–49
Reeves case and, 23, 24
youth group of, 41–42, 51–52, 61
Negro History Week, 9, 27, 30
Nesbitt, Geraldine, 25–26, 26, 50, 58, 75
after Claudette’s arrest, 40
education of, 25, 38
Negro History Week taught by, 27, 30
Nixon, E. D., 41, 41, 48, 53, 56, 59, 74
attack on home of, 71
after Claudette’s arrest, 40, 43
indictment as boycott leader of, 81, 82
on King’s speeches, 65
in meetings with city and bus company officials, 54
after Parks’s arrest, 58
Parks, Rosa, 41, 42, 48, 49, 53, 56, 93, 102–5
appeal of conviction of, 73
arrest of, 58–59, 61, 62
Gray and, 43, 55, 58
indictment as boycott leader of, 81, 82
NAACP youth group led by, 41–42, 51–52, 61
Parks, Sylvester, 42
Pine Level (Alabama), 11–15, 42, 79, 93
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), 71, 91, 92
Poe, Edgar Allan, 25
polio, 18–19
Price, Annie Larkin, 44, 66, 95, 98, 113
Purcell, Harold, 19
Reese, Jeanette, 83
Reeves, Jeremiah, 23–25, 24, 27, 34, 63, 115–16n
Rice, Thomas “Daddy,” 4
Rivers of Change (Dickerson-Waheed), 77
Rives, Richard, 83, 85, 89, 91, 92
Robinson, Jo Ann, 8, 37–39, 38, 53, 65, 68, 93
boycott flyer produced and distributed by, 58
at Browder v. Gayle trial, 83, 88
after Claudette’s arrest, 37, 41
at Claudette’s juvenile court hearing, 44, 45
indictment as boycott leader of, 81, 82 132
in meetings with city and bus company officials, 38–39, 54
police attacks on home of, 71
in Women’s Political Council, 47–48
Rogers, Roy, 17–18
St. Jude Hospital, 18–19
St. Jude School, 21, 54
Salter, Jack, 85–86
schools, desegregation of, 83
see also Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Sellers, Clyde, 88–89, 94
Selma-to-Montgomery march, 83
separate but equal, doctrine of, 71, 92
Sikora, Frank, 88, 96, 102–3, 113, 120n
skin color, attitudes toward, 22, 26–27
Smiley, Glenn, 96
Smith, Frank, 54
Smith, Mary Louise, 53–55, 54, 84, 88
Spring Hill School (Pine Level), 13–14
Supreme Court, U.S., 9, 24, 26, 27, 71, 85, 92, 95, 98
Taylor, Fred, 116n
Till, Emmett, 53
Todd, Nancy, 26
To Kill a Mockingbird (film), 120n
Trinity Lutheran Church, 69, 94
Tubman, Harriet, 27, 47, 75
Underground Railroad, 27
USA Today, 106
Ward, T. J., 44
Warren, Earl, 27
We Were There, Too! (Hoose), 105
Wheatley, Phillis, 37
White, Viola, 8
White Citizens Councils, 74, 80, 94
Williams, Hank, 16
Willing, Richard, 106
Wingfield, Katie, 8
Women’s Political Council (WPC), 38, 39, 47–48
World War II, 12
Worthy, Epsie, 9
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