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by Nicholas Johnson


  Pledger, W. A., 122

  Polk, James (president), 133

  Poplarville, Mississippi, 28, 230

  Port Hudson, Louisiana, 70

  Portland, Maine, 61

  Powell, William, 61

  Price, John, 57

  Prosser, Gabriel, 32

  Pullum, Joe, 233–234

  Purman, W. J., 118

  Purvis, Robert, 55–56, 62

  Quantico, Virginia, 210

  “Radio Free Dixie,” 260

  Randolph, A. Philip, 173, 177–180

  Randolph, John, 148

  Rankin, John, 45–46

  Ransom, Gen. Robert, 94

  Raton, New Mexico, 137

  Ray, Thomas, 175

  Reconstruction, 18, 24, 44, 80, 82, 85, 87, 90, 92, 94–95, 98, 100, 103–105, 108, 118–119, 127, 157

  redemption, Confederate, 152, 157

  Redmond, Charles, 159, 66

  Red Oak, Ohio, 51

  Red Shirts, 123

  Reed, Gov. Harrison, 93

  Reed, Mary Ruth, 25

  Reeves, Annie Colton, 233

  Reeves, Bass, 140–141

  “Regulators,” 79, 134

  Reid, John, 30

  Remington shotgun, 240

  Republican Party, 85, 87, 89–93, 95, 97–104, 116, 118, 121, 123, 160, 164, 169, 193

  Republic of Texas, 134

  Resistance at Christiana. See Christiana (Pennsylvania) Resistance, Uprising, Tragedy

  Rice, Angelena, 223

  Rice, Condoleezza, 223

  Richardson, Gloria, 226

  Richmond, Virginia, 46, 86

  Ripley, Ohio, 44–45

  Rivers, Prince, 98

  Robinson, Tom, 216

  Roby, Vanderbilt, 247

  Rochelle, Fred, 194

  Rochester, New York, 67

  Rockville, Maryland, 43

  Root, Tom, 139

  Rope and Faggot, 182–183, 186

  Rose, Edward, 132

  Roseland Park Cemetery, Chicago, 206

  Rosewood, Florida, 190–192

  Ross, George, 164

  Rough Riders, 123

  Rowan, Carl, 290

  Rowland, Dick, 187

  Rufus Buck Gang, 139–140

  Ruggles, David, 59

  Rumley, Ohio, 148

  Russellville, Kentucky, 166

  Rustin, Bayard, 251, 262–263

  Sac and Fox Indian Reservations, 130

  St. Augustine, Florida, 128, 226, 241

  St. Michaels, Maryland, 33–34

  Salter, John R., 240

  Salt Lake Broad Axe, 125

  Santee River, 78

  Saxon, Gen. Rufus, 81

  Schurz, Gen. Charles, 180

  Schwerner, Michael, 38, 240, 250, 252

  SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), 252, 258, 265–266, 286, 288, 293

  Scott, Emmett, 122

  Scott, George, 71–72

  Sea Islands, 79

  Seale, Bobby, 283

  Second Amendment (US Constitution). See Constitution of the United States, right to arms

  Second Freedman’s Bureau Act, 82

  Second Seminole War, 128

  Sellers, Cleveland, 226, 252, 266

  Selma, Alabama, 224

  Seminoles, 128–129, 140

  Seneca County, New York, 66

  Shang, Shadrack “Buddie,” 147–149

  Shelby County, Kentucky, 44, 84

  Shelby County, Ohio, 148

  Shillady, John, 175

  Shores, Arthur, 221, 24

  Shuttlesworth, Rev. Fred, 222–223

  Sickles, Gen. Daniel, 79, 81

  Sims, Charles, 66, 274–276, 278–280, 23–24

  Siringo, Charlie, 135

  Sitton, Claude, 254

  Sixkiller, Sam, 138

  Smiley, Glenn, 263

  Smiley, Rev. Richman, 62

  Smith, Bill, 136

  Smith, C. E., 226

  Smith, Dollar Bill, 163

  Smith, Ed and Marie, 196

  Smith, Hampton, 157

  Smith, Harry C., 119

  Smith, Rev. R. L. T., 239

  Smith, Will, 139

  Smith & Wesson, 194, 240, 340

  SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), 226, 232, 241, 244, 247, 251, 252, 255, 265, 268, 286–287, 293

  SNCC Freedom House, 251

  Socialist Workers Party, 283

  Somerton, South Carolina, 42

  Souls of Black Folk, The, 153, 306

  South Bend, Indiana, 53

  South Carolina Criminal Code, 171

  Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 252, 258, 265–266, 286, 288, 293

  Southern Patriot, 28

  Spartacus League, 283

  Spivak, Lawrence, 288–290

  Spooner, Lysander, 50

  Springfield rifle, 88

  Stagecoach Mary. See Fields, Mary

  Stanford, Kentucky, 162

  “State Negroes,” 130

  State v. John Mann, 36

  State v. Negro Will, 36

  State v. Sweet et al., 203

  Stegall, Bruce, 260

  Stegall, Mabel, 260

  Stephenson, Gladys, 213

  Steptoe, E. W., 253–254

  Steve Green, 172

  Stevenson, Job, 96

  Steward, C. C., 127

  Stewart, T. McCants, 119

  Stewart, Will, 106–107

  Still, William, 46–48, 65

  Stokes, James, 273

  Stone, Jim, 113

  Stringer, Emmett, 242–243

  Stuart, Augustus, 74

  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). See SNCC

  Swedesboro, New Jersey, 51

  Sweet, Gladys, 194, 196–198, 201, 205–207

  Sweet, Henry, 124, 198, 205–206

  Sweet, Iva, 206

  Sweet, Ossian, 193–208, 215

  Sweet, Otis, 198

  Swift, L. J., 167

  Syracuse Stars, 147

  Talented Tenth, 175, 182, 193–195, 202

  Tanner, John, 36

  Tawawa Springs, 193

  Taylor, Fanny, 190

  Taylor, Julius F., 125

  Taylor, Zachary (president), 133

  Tennent, Ned, 98

  Texas, 77, 83, 86, 89, 92–93, 96, 132–136, 138, 140–143, 175, 183

  Texas Congress, 134–135

  Texas Kid, 136

  Texas Rangers, 133

  “The Curve” (Memphis), 106

  Thermopolis, 180, 189

  Thirteenth Amendment (US Constitution), 130

  Thomas, Earnest “Deac,” 265, 267–268, 283

  Thomas, Hank, 222

  Thomas, Mary, 300

  Thompson, Marie, 167

  Thompson submachine gun, 218

  Tilden, Samuel, 103

  Till, Emmett, 28, 217–220, 230

  Tillman, Sen. Ben “Pitchfork,” 99

  Toledo, Ohio, 144

  Tougaloo College, 240

  Townsend, Lou Ella, 231, 246

  “Try Me If You Be Men” (maroon settlement), 128

  Tubman, Harriet, 44–45

  Tulsa, Oklahoma, 163, 187–190

  Tulsa Daily Tribune, 187

  Turnbow, Hartman, 13, 15, 244–247, 253, 297

  Turnbow, Sweets, 246

  Turner, Alexander, 195–197, 199–200, 202

  Turner, Henry McNeal (bishop), 125

  Turner, Lola, 201

  Turner, Nat, 32, 119, 153

  Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 222, 226, 243

  Tuskegee Institute, 121, 184

  “Two against 5,000” (article), 209, 213

  Underground Railroad, 44–48, 55, 63, 65

  Underwood, J. C., 109

  Union Army, 44, 69–70, 78, 84, 94, 98–99

  Union League, 88–91

  United States Marshals

  black, 140–141

  white, 56–57, 60, 63, 140, 161

  United States Supreme Court, 2
0, 37, 103, 106, 118, 139, 172–173, 206, 285, 293, 296

  Universal Negro Improvement Association, 177, 234

  University of Alabama, 219

  University of Kansas, 274–276

  University of Mississippi, 264

  Ursuline Convent of the Sacred Heart, 144

  US Steel, 168

  Valentine, Henry E., 172

  Vesey, Denmark, 32, 153

  Veterans Administration, 184

  Vicksburg, Mississippi, 44–42, 73, 77, 79, 86–87, 97, 114, 218

  Victoria, Texas, 77

  Virginian, The, 128

  Wagner, Gen. Sayne, 82

  Wahalak, Mississippi, 212

  Wales, Cora, 209–212, 294

  Wales, William, 209–212, 294

  Walker, David, 58–59

  Walker, Moses Fleetwood, 147

  Wall, Pressley, 136

  Wallace, George, 226

  Wallace, Lew (territorial governor), 137

  Wall Street Journal, 279, 22, 303

  Walters, Alexander (bishop), 124

  Wanzer, Frank, 46

  Ward, Sam R., 61

  Warmoth, Gov. Henry, 101

  Warren County, Mississippi, 87

  Washington, Booker T., 121–123, 126, 151–152, 172, 184, 202, 216

  Washington, Charles, 198

  Washington, DC, 14, 54, 88, 104, 121–143, 125, 152, 175–177, 194, 202, 219, 285, 295, 302–303, 309

  Washington, Forrester, 195

  Washington, George (black cowboy), 137

  Washington Bee, 119

  Washington Daily American, 202

  Washington Parish, Louisiana, 212–213, 163

  Washington Post, 124, 176

  Washita River, 130

  Watson, Hewitt, 197

  Watson, Robert, 155

  Watson, Thomas, 113

  Weaver, Maurice, 214

  Weaver, Robert, 293

  Webb, Alex, 90

  Weber Falls, Indian Territory, 129

  Wells, Houston, 239

  Wells, Ida B., 13, 15, 106, 109, 111–112, 114, 116–119, 126–127, 131, 144, 163, 168, 170, 172, 295–296, 306, 308, 315

  Wells Fargo, 145–146

  West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 269

  Wheeler, Bill, 43

  Whigs, 118

  White, George, 184

  White, Walter, 184, 187, 192–193, 231, 24, 209, 214, 229

  White Brotherhood, 80

  White Camellia, 80, 102

  Wilberforce College, 193

  Wild, Gen. Edward, 173

  Wildcat (chief), 133

  Wilkins, Roy, 182, 209–213, 230–231, 38–39, 241, 261, 23, 265–266, 283, 288, 290–294, 307

  Williams, Anthony, 185

  Williams, Bill, 188

  Williams, Cathy, 142

  Williams, “Daddy John,” 18

  Williams, Henry, 64

  Williams, Hosea, 265

  Williams, Jim, 100

  Williams, Robert, 17–24, 23, 25–26, 29, 31, 62, 225, 230, 241, 256, 258–260, 282, 289

  Williams, Sikes, 18

  Willson, Gov. Augustus E., 164–165

  Wilmington, North Carolina, 76, 94–95, 123–124

  Wilmington Herald, 77

  Wilmington Rifle Guard, 88

  Wilson, Felton, 212

  Wilson, James Q., 316

  Wilson, Jerome, 212–213

  Wilson, John, 212

  Wilson, Luther, 213

  Wilson, Moise, 213

  Wilson, Rebecca, 243

  Wilson, Woodrow (president), 169, 183, 193

  Winchester rifle, 97, 105, 110–111, 115, 122, 124, 127, 131–132, 44, 151, 159, 168, 172, 191, 198, 222, 233, 240, 255, 277, 295, 306

  Wister, Owen, 128

  Wizard of Tuskegee. See Washington, Booker T.

  Wolfgang, Marvin, 305–306

  Wood, Delos, 212

  Workers World Party, 283

  World War I, 169, 173–177, 194, 220

  World War II, 213, 246, 265, 274

  Wormser Hotel, 104

  Worthy, William, 263

  Wright, Louis T., 182

  Yates, Bill, 275–277

  Yazoo County, Mississippi, 98, 268

  York County, South Carolina, 100

  York County, Virginia, 72

  Young, A. Z., 280–281

  Young, Andrew, 224, 266

  Young, Thomas, 239

  Young, Whitney, 265–266, 288

  Young County, Texas, 141

  Zellner, Bob, 255

 

 

 


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