The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South
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chess champion: Poole family papers.
suicide: CL, November 14, 1980.
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Abzug, Bella, 4, 12, 90–91, 106, 111, 114–15, 117, 154–61, 186, 195, 208, 210, 211, 347–48
McGee case and, 114–17, 154–61, 240–43, 250–52, 256–57, 273–77, 285–86, 301, 305, 312–18, 329–30, 334–35, 339, 347–48
Abzug, Liz, 211, 219–20, 222, 224–25
Aegerter, F., 1–2, 4
Allen, John Polk, 325–26
American Legion, 245, 251
Anderson, Jack, 52, 175, 331
Arrington, Claude, 153, 169
Associated Press, 28, 129, 245, 332
A-bomb, 7, 79, 144, 149, 150, 233–34
Attala County Massacre, 68–69
Bailey, Thomas, 28, 35, 146
Baker, Josephine, 4, 335, 344
Barnes, Bill, 50, 52, 170, 286
Barnes, Dr. T. J., 153, 169
Barrett, Richard, 14, 26
Bilbo, Theodore, 10, 55, 58–63, 71–74, 77–80, 81–85, 92, 115, 133, 148, 154, 234, 237, 245, 291
Birdsong, T. B., 250
Black, Hugo, 204, 305–7, 329
Bloch, Emanuel H., 234, 241–42, 250
Boas, Franz, 246–47
Bond, N. B., 95, 102, 323
Boston, Ralph, 34
Bowers, Sam, 34–35
Boyd, M. W., 35–36, 43–44, 54, 56–57, 91, 95
Braden, Anne and Carl, 263, 314
Bragg, Willie Mae, 320
Breland, Dan, 82–86, 95–96, 99, 102, 139, 210, 347
Britton, Paul, 51, 100, 118, 170
Broadway, Lonnie, 152
Brogan, Steve, 199–200, 316–18, 331
Browder, Earl, 207
Brown, T. D., 153, 169
Brown, Thomas Watson, 141
Brownmiller, Susan, 11, 115–17
Burnside, Mary, 68
Bryant, Carolyn, 116
Burnett, John G., 277, 307
Burnham, Louis E., 56–58, 65, 344
Burton, Harold, 256–57, 264–66
Cadden, Joseph, 180
Calhoun, E. T., 85
Cammer, Harold, 159
Carter, Dan T., 193
Carter, Lester, 197
Carter, W. M., 37–38
Carter, Willie, 55–56
Chambers, Whittaker, 160, 234
Chicago, 7, 15, 92, 116, 131, 139, 188, 223, 239, 247–48, 256, 281, 302–3, 305, 324–25, 345
Chicago Defender, 40, 128, 326
China, 7, 233, 328
Christian, Pete, 25, 334, 337
Christopher, Warren, 205
Churchill, Winston, 134, 299
Civil Rights Congress (CRC), 6–8, 56, 58, 67, 69, 81, 90, 91, 128, 135, 139, 154, 211, 342–46
anti-Bilbo, 78–79, 234, 245
attacks on CRC delegates, 245–46, 254–60, 297
Communist ties, 154, 182–92, 208, 209, 234–35, 238–43, 245–60, 261–82, 285–88, 296–97, 315, 324–26, 341
genocide petition, 342–43, 344
Martinsville Seven and, 279–82
McGee case and, 6–8, 180–82, 187, 199, 209, 216–17, 220–22, 225–28, 234–35, 238–43, 245–60, 261–78, 285–88, 296–97, 305, 313, 315, 324–26
NAACP and, 78, 278–79
Patterson as head of, 187–98, 239, 271–73, 278–80
Clarion-Ledger, 64, 78, 92, 147, 235–36, 275, 292, 317, 318, 320
Coe, John M., 186, 285–87, 301, 305, 312–15, 330, 347
Coleman, J. P., 313, 316, 322, 339
Collins, E. K., 164, 243, 262
Collins, F. Burkitt, 30, 36, 38, 39, 41, 137, 198, 242–43, 270, 322
first McGee trial, 44–45
second trial, 81–83, 94–104
third trial, 165–79
Colmer, William, 130–31, 265
Columbia, Tennessee, riots, 75–76
Columbia University, 155, 159, 183, 185, 189, 246, 248
Combat, 4–5, 328
Committee on Civil Rights, 134, 142
Communism, 6–8, 78, 82, 84, 106, 149, 150, 154, 157–60, 182–92, 220, 233, 299, 301, 342
CRC and, 154, 182–92, 208, 209, 234–35, 238–43, 245–60, 261–82, 285–88, 296–97, 315, 324–26, 341
HUAC hearings, 154, 160, 182, 201, 271–72
McCarthyism and, 233–34
McGee case and, 6–8, 180–92, 208, 209, 234–35, 238–43, 245–60, 261–78, 285–88, 296–97, 315, 324–26
Palmer Raids, 190–91
Scottsboro trials and, 192–98
Smith Act and, 182–83, 206–8
Soviet, 149, 150, 158–60, 185, 189, 191, 298, 328, 342
Congress, U.S., 58, 74, 78, 144
anti-Bilbo campaign, 78–80
civil rights, 71–72, 130–32
HUAC hearings, 154, 160, 182, 201, 271–72
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 81–82, 301, 325
Cook, Dr. Grady, 48, 100
coram nobis plea, 241–43, 250, 258, 275, 276
Costigan-Wagner bill, 130–32
Crowell, Bertha Mae, 121–27, 212–16, 223
Culbertson, John Bolt, 143
Daily People’s World, 285, 289, 301, 302, 326, 327
Daily Worker, 7, 15, 41, 59, 69, 95, 113–14, 117–18, 128, 130, 133, 135, 161, 180, 182, 195, 227, 238–39, 250, 255, 265–66, 277, 281, 285, 286, 324, 326, 328
Hawkins’s libel suit against, 84, 114, 183, 346–47
Davis, Angela, 116–17
Davis, Benjamin, 183, 207–8
Davis, M. L., 45
Deavours, Jack, 137–38, 164, 166, 169, 171–79, 318–19, 321
Deavours, William, 318–22, 338
DeLoach, Gus, 337–38
Democratic Party, 6, 60, 71, 73, 129, 130, 134, 144–46, 148, 149, 154, 184, 238, 273, 294
Dennis, Eugene, 182, 184, 207
Dillard, W. O. “Chet,” 309–12, 318–23, 337
Dix, Jack, 332–33
Dixiecrats, 145–49, 184, 262
Douglas, William O., 204, 205, 277, 307, 329
Drake, Roy, 65
Dray, Philip, 8–11, 90, 114
Duberman, Martin Bauml, 190
Duclos, Jacques, 207
Earle, Willie, 141–44, 145, 250
Easterling, Albert, 30, 43, 48, 50, 63–64, 138, 178, 243, 271
Eastman, Charles and Lauren, 32
Einstein, Albert, 4, 325
Eisler, Gerhart, 154
electric chair, 9–10, 25, 29, 68, 113, 200, 219, 310, 319–21, 323, 330, 334, 339
Ellender, Allen J., 79
Elliot, Harold, 49–51
Esters, Katharine Carr, 228–32
Farish Street district, 244–45
Fast, Howard, 185, 281, 316, 342
Faulkner, William, 4, 288–96, 325
“Dry September,” 291–92
Intruder in the Dust, 291–96
on lynching, 291–96
McGee case and, 288–90
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 12, 30, 42–43, 49, 76, 141–43, 160, 182, 189, 206, 220, 221, 246, 266, 278, 301, 305
McGee case file, 109, 254–56, 258–60, 273
Feise, Winifred, 248–49, 251, 253–55
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, 256, 287, 329
Fischer, Stephen, 250, 253–56
Fitzgerald, Ella, 238
Fletcher, Etoy, 73–74, 78
Flowers, Thomas J., 245–46, 260
Floyd, Ruby, 265, 279–82
Floyd, Thelma, 223
Foley Square, 181, 345–46
Forrest County Courthouse, 94
Foster, William Z., 7, 182, 184–85, 206–7, 250
Fourteenth Amendment, 39, 140, 151, 190, 201, 204, 340
France, 4, 36, 207, 300, 327, 328
Frankfurter, Felix, 191, 203
Frantz, Laurent, 85, 91–92, 165
Frieden, Evelyn, 297
Gallego, Gerald, 65
Gardiner, George and Silas, 32
Gartin, Carroll, 165, 242–43, 262, 314
Gates, John, 182
Gibbons, Thomas, 165
Gillman, Katherine, 257
Gilmore, Al-Tony, 109
Gilmore, George, Jr., 230, 273
Gilstrap, J. Ed, 141
Goebbels, Joseph, 298
Goodman, Ernest, 330, 335
Gordon, Lottie, 225–27, 269, 345
Gray, Bud, 316
Grayson, Frances DeSales, 279–81
Grayson, Josephine, 280, 281
Great Britain, 134, 149, 158, 189, 234, 296, 297–99, 300, 327
Green, A. Wigfall, 59
Green, Ernest, 27–28, 40–42
Greene, Percy, 78, 245, 257, 267–68
Greenglass, David, 234
Grossman, Aubrey, 8, 246, 251, 252, 254, 256–59, 266, 278, 302
Hall, Carsie, 55
Hall, Gus, 182
Hall, Robert, 203–204
Hammett, Dashiell, 78, 281
Hanks, Raberthe, 266–67
Hansberry, Lorraine, epigraph, 247
Harris, Albert, Jr., 76–77
Harris, E. C., 51, 174
Harris, Jesse James, 345–46
Harris, Mary Ella, 68
Harris, Reverend R. H., 240, 246
Harris, Ruby Nell, 68
Harris, Thomas, 68–69
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 3, 9, 19, 22, 30, 43, 48, 51, 52, 83, 94, 96, 100, 101, 107, 122, 125, 136, 155, 174, 175, 176, 177, 213, 242, 331, 347
Hattiesburg American, 99
Hawkins, Alfred E., 194
Hawkins, Ann, 106–108, 111, 123, 127, 213
Hawkins, Dorothy, 25–26, 105–08, 111, 119, 123, 127, 212–16, 310–12
Hawkins, Sandra, 25–26, 105–13, 118–21, 123, 127, 212–16
Hawkins, Troy, 2, 21–22, 29, 46, 47, 48, 49, 53, 87, 89, 92, 100, 105, 111, 114, 118, 127, 172, 173, 178, 202, 242, 274–75, 282–86, 313, 330, 346
death of, 22, 127
testimony at McGee trials, 48–49, 109–10, 170
Willette’s alleged scheme to murder, 87–90, 171, 282, 283
Hawkins, Willette, 1–2, 5–6, 9, 12, 21–22, 26, 223–24, 330
alleged rape of, 2–3, 14, 24, 29, 30, 47–49, 52–53, 71, 98–100, 107–108, 113, 117–22, 140, 170–74, 198–99, 215, 239, 253–54, 287, 304, 346
alleged scheme to murder Troy, 87–90, 171, 282, 283
Daily Worker libel suit, 84, 114, 183, 346–47
daughters of, 13–15, 25–26, 105–113, 118–21, 170–72, 212–16
death of, 22, 127
McGee’s love-affair alibi and, 2, 5–6, 11, 17, 24, 83–90, 106–107, 111, 113–18, 121–23, 140, 171, 199, 210, 224, 249, 273–75, 282–87, 304, 311–12, 317, 319, 322, 347
mental condition of, 113, 122–23, 125–26, 214
physical appearance of, 46, 112, 123, 127, 312
press and historians on, 84, 113–18, 346–47
testimony at first trial, 45–48
second trial, 98–100
third trial, 170–74
Heidelberg Hotel, 244, 249, 254
Herndon, Angelo, 207–8
Herring, C. M., 65–66, 102
Herring, Hugh, 51, 174, 175, 177
Hickenlooper, Bourke, 79
Hicks, L. C., 187
Hill, Luther, 30, 35, 64, 96, 174, 176
Hinds County Courthouse and jail, 3, 30, 35, 41, 44–45, 57, 81, 83, 139, 174, 176, 178, 180, 199, 201–2, 218, 219, 261–62, 316
McGee’s escape attempt from, 63–66, 70, 71, 102
Hiss, Alger, 160, 234, 241
Hitler, Adolph, 77, 158, 247, 263, 297–98, 344
Holden, Joel, 245
Holder, Luther, 40, 43
Holland, Clarence, 165, 167
Holloway, Charlie, 63–66
Hooks, LaVera, 94, 112, 123, 213
Hoover, Herbert, 61, 237
Hoover, J. Edgar, 191, 301
Hopson, Louise, 297
Horne, Gerald, 91, 114, 222
Horton, James E., 196–98
Hotel Edwards, 244, 249
House Select Committee on Lobbying Activities, 271
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 154, 160, 182, 201, 210, 271
Howard, Isaac, 28–29
Hunter College, 157–59
Hurd, Roosevelt, Sr., 142, 144
Illinois Central Depot, 249, 255
Imbragulio, Rose Marie, 51, 100
Ingram, Rosa Lee, 271–72, 278
International Labor Defense (ILD), 192–98
Isserman, Abraham, 70, 155, 180–82, 183, 208
Jackson, Forrest B., 55–58, 70–71, 78–79, 81–85, 210
Jackson, Mississippi, 3, 4, 10–11, 14, 22, 25, 28–30, 38, 42–43, 45, 55, 61, 63, 64, 65, 73, 78, 79, 81, 84, 85, 92, 93, 105, 107, 119, 129, 146, 147, 148, 155, 157, 161, 162, 163, 165, 166, 175, 176, 177, 179, 182, 187, 200, 209, 216, 217, 228, 229, 230, 234–38, 240, 242, 243–45, 248, 263, 264, 267, 269, 270, 271, 273, 277, 278, 288, 297, 302, 303, 304, 309, 310, 312, 314, 316, 320, 324, 330, 334, 339, 341, 345, 348
attacks on CRC delegates in, 245–46, 254–60, 297
Jackson Advocate, 78, 245, 268
Jackson Daily News, 65, 66, 147, 153, 181, 187, 209, 211, 229, 235–38, 250, 251, 254, 256, 257, 260, 277, 303, 315, 317, 333
Poole’s libel suit against, 181–82, 209–10, 269–71, 277, 348
Jensen, Mrs. John, 120–21, 170, 249
Jensen, Leroy, 118–21
Johnson, Hettie, 50, 167–68, 223, 286–87, 307, 339
Johnson, Paul, Sr., 41–42, 236–37
Jones, John C., 76–77, 145
Jones, Johnny, 28–29
Jones County, Mississippi, 31–45, 166, 217, 318
Jones County Courthouse and jail, 9, 21–22, 41–42, 81–82, 242–43, 261, 265, 318–20, 321–23, 329–35
jury, 74, 135, 138
McGee’s first trial, 46–54