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Abernathy, Ralph: at Centenary Church meeting, 55; and Georgia Davis, 120; at death of MLK, 155, 157–58; on decision to go to Memphis, 51; dinner after Mason Temple rally with, 117; on effect of adverse publicity, 6; on exhaustion and illness of MLK, 81–82; on extramarital affairs, 130; final lunch with, 135–36; on flight from Atlanta, 1, 2; friendship with MLK, 103–5; on injunction, 56, 57, 60; on the Invaders, 70; on last afternoon, 141, 146, 147; at Lorraine Motel, 48, 49; at march after death of MLK, 159; at Mason Temple rally, 81, 83, 102–3, 114; on MLK’s love of life, 161; on Poor People’s Campaign, 13, 144; relationship and role of, 27; on staff of SCLC, 50; subsequent life and death of, 171; tribute to MLK at Mason Temple rally, 104–5; week of recuperation with, 5
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), 60–61
AFL-CIO, 101
AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees), 18–19, 20, 101, 169
Alabama, Poor People’s Campaign in, 13
Albany, Georgia, 34, 45, 77
Ali, Muhammad, 119
Allied Organization for Civil Rights, 119–20
Alpha Phi Alpha, 33
Alton, Illinois, 90, 92, 93, 95
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 60–61
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), 18–19, 20, 101, 169
Anschutz, Willie, 153
anticolonial movement, 10
antipoverty movement, 10
antiwar movement. See Vietnam War
Aquamarine Supply Company (Birmingham), 96–97
Armour, Claude, 78–79
Armstrong, Louis, 48
assassination: fear and expectation of, 2, 74–75, 112–15, 161, 164; threats of, 6, 75, 112–13, 126
Atlanta: flight from, 1–6; James Earl Ray in, 96
Avery Corporation, 93
Bailey, Lorene, 47–48
Bailey, Walter, 47–48, 56, 62
Baker, Ella, 128
“Battle Hymn of the Republic,” 113–14
Beifuss, Joan: on arrival at Lorraine
Motel, 48; on early history of Memphis, 41; on first Mason Temple rally, 36; on garbage workers strike, 3, 20; on invitation to speak in Memphis, 37; on racism in Memphis, 3; on second Mason Temple rally, 114, 115
Belafonte, Harry, 5, 87, 144
Bevel, James: at death of MLK, 155; and injunction, 56; and the Invaders, 67, 135, 137; at Lorraine Motel, 49; in Poor People’s Campaign, 145; return to Memphis of, 13; on SCLC staff, 50–52
biblical themes, 110–11, 112–14
Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged, 86, 165
Birmingham, Alabama: injunction in, 57; in Mason Temple speech, 110; media coverage in, 82–83; provocation of violent reaction in, 44; James Earl Ray in, 94, 96–97
black nationalism, 68
Black Organizing Project, 69, 71
Black Power militants: background of, 68–69; and injunction, 63; and nonviolence, 5, 9, 137–39; and Poor People’s Campaign, 10, 66, 70, 165. See also the Invaders
Blackstone Rangers (Chicago), 65, 66, 70
Blakey, Robert, 93–94, 138
“blue crush,” 78
Bolton, Wade Hampton, 41
bomb threat on plane from Atlanta, 6, 73
Bonus March, 86–87, 166
Boston University, 162
Boyko, Hugo, 9
Branch, Ben, 146, 156
Branch, Taylor, 50, 104, 111, 129–30
Brando, Marlon, 144
Breathitt, Edward, 118–19
Brewer, Bessie, 150–51
Browder v. Gayle (1956), 58
Brown, Bailey: hearing on injunction from, 60; injunction granted by, 56, 57, 58; and request to vacate injunction, 62, 64, 122–23, 125, 134–35; threat of injunction from, 26
Brown, H. Rap, 9, 68, 69, 137
Brown, James, 68
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 57
Buckeye Cotton Oil Company, 17
Burch, Lucius Edward, Jr., 60–64, 135, 146, 170
Buttrick, George, 111
Byrd, Robert, 4
Cabbage, Charles, 49, 66–69, 71, 135, 138–39
Canipe Amusement Company (Memphis), 150
capitalism, 86–88, 162–63
Capitol Hill Housing Project (Atlanta), 96
Carmichael, Stokely, 9, 68, 128
Carpenter, Ralph, 151–52
Caywood, David, 53, 63
Centenary United Methodist Church (Memphis), 54–58
Charles, Ray, 48
Charlotte, North Carolina, police security in, 77
Chicago: James Earl Ray in, 92–93; slums of, 86; street gangs of, 65–66, 70–71
civil disobedience, massive, 8, 70, 145, 166
civil rights movement: criticism from, 4–5; MLK on, 10; sexism in, 128
Cobras (Chicago), 65
Cody, J. Michael, 61, 63–64, 99, 114
COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program), 76
Cole, Echol, 19–20
Commercial Appeal (newspaper): on planned second march, 55; on rioting, 4
communism, 163
Community on the Move for Equality (COME), 25, 69, 71
Connor, Theophilus Eugene “Bull,” 44
Copeland, Elizabeth, 152
Cotton, Dorothy: background of, 133–34; departure from Memphis of, 125, 133–34, 141; on desegregation campaign in Albany, Georgia, 34; on flight from Atlanta, 1, 6; and the Invaders, 67; on leadership and charisma of MLK, 50, 51; at Lorraine Motel, 49; in Poor People’s Campaign, 13; relationship and role of, 28
Cotton, George, 134
Cotton Carnival, 24
Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO), 76
Crozer Theological Seminary, 162
Crump, E. H., 61
damage control, 11–12, 53–58
Dattel, Eugene, 17
Davis, Fred, 45
Davis, George, 26, 28
Davis, Georgia, 117–23; early life of, 118–19; helping of MLK brother by, 121–22; at Lorraine Motel, 118, 122–23, 126, 142, 143; marriages of, 119; political career of, 119–20, 122; relationship of MLK with, 117, 120–21, 129; subsequent life and death of, 170
death threats, 6, 75, 112–13, 126
Demopolis, Alabama, 113
depression, King suffered from, 6, 82
desegregation: in Albany, Georgia, 34; legislation on, 5; in Memphis, 3, 16, 25–26, 43, 57, 61
Detroit, rioting in, 9
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Montgomery), 1–2, 162, 163
Dorsey, Thomas, 156
Drum Major Sermon, 167
Dryden Rubber Company, 92
DuBois, Barney, 78
dues checkoff, 19, 43, 45, 169
Eastern Airlines, flight to Memphis of, 1, 6
Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta): first sermon at, 111; plans for next sermon at, 142; preaching own eulogy at, 113, 167; James Earl Ray and, 96; SCLC staff retreat at, 145; self-condemnation sermon at, 131; young MLK at, 2
Economic Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged, 86, 165
economic boycott, 55–56, 110
economic justice, shift from racial segregation to, 10, 11, 86–88
Ellington, Duke, 84
Ellis, Cato, 59–60
Eskridge, Chauncey, 113, 122–23, 146
extramarital affairs, 117, 120–21, 129–31
Fairclough, Adam, 128, 137–38
fascism, 165
fast-food franchises, 88
fatalism, 74–75, 113–14, 161
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 29, 130, 142; smear campaign by, 145–46
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, 17
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