Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 40
Fosdick, Emerson, 111
Frank, Gerold, 84, 151
Franklin, Aretha, 144
Franklin, C. L., 111
Gagliano, J. S., 47
Galt, Eric Starvo (alias), 90, 94, 96, 97
Gandhi, Mahatma, 105
garbage workers strike: background of, 15–21; and credibility as nonviolent leader, 4–5; first march in support of, 2, 4; invitation to speak in support of, 31–37; and MLK speech on March 18, 100; plans for second march in support of, 3; as racial discrimination issue, 3, 15–16, 19–20; response of mayor to, 43–44, 45–46; rioting during first march in support of, 2, 4; slogan of, 15
Garrow, David, 87, 130, 131
Georgia, Poor People’s Campaign in, 13
GI Bill (1944), 166
Good Samaritan parable, 110
Hagemaster, Henrietta, 90
Halberstam, David, 82, 165
Hamby, Jack, 47
Harlem (New York), knife attack in, 111–12, 126
Harrington, Michael, 166
Hemingway, Ernest, 61, 63
Holloman, Frank, 74, 75–77, 134, 146–47, 170
Honey, Michael K., 15, 35, 49, 102
Hooks, Benjamin: on fast-food franchises, 88; on injunctions, 58; in NAACP, 40; on soul food, 136; on Vietnam War, 33, 34
Hoover, Herbert, 87, 166
Hoover, J. Edgar, 76, 130, 145–46
Howe, Julia Ward, 113–14
Howell, Ronald, 28
Hunt and Polo Club (Memphis), 61
“I Have a Dream” speech, 5, 108, 164
Illinois Central Railroad, 62
imagery in speeches, 111
income, guaranteed minimum, 86, 165–66
Ingersoll, John, 77
Ingram, William, 43
injunction: petition for, 56–58; possibility of, 24, 26–27, 45; request to vacate, 122–23, 125, 134–35; ruling on, 141, 146–47; serving of and response to, 59–64; violation of, 126
insomnia, 82
integration. See desegregation International Shoe Tannery, 92 the Invaders, 65–71; background of, 68–69; breakdown in negotiations with, 133, 135, 136–39; at Lorraine Motel, 49, 66; and Memphis rioting, 66–67, 122, 136, 138; misjudgment of, 138–39; money demanded by, 67, 71, 133, 135, 136; negotiations between MLK and, 65–66, 67, 70–71; and nonviolence, 27, 70–71, 133, 134, 136–37; as parade marshals, 49–50, 65, 71, 135, 138; and “tactical” violence, 135, 136–37
Jackson, Andrew, 61
Jackson, Jesse: at Centenary Church meeting, 55–56; at death of MLK, 155, 156; on last afternoon, 146; at Lorraine Motel, 49; at Mason Temple rally, 83, 102–3, 114; on media coverage, 83; return to Memphis of, 13; on SCLC staff, 50–52; subsequent life of, 171
Jackson, Mahalia, 88
Jahn, Gunnar, 104
Jaynes, Gregory, 78, 158
Jenkins, W. A., 57
Jim Crow life, 41–42
Jim’s Grill (Memphis), 150
jobs, guaranteed, 86, 165–66
“John Gaston turbans,” 78
Johnson, Frank, 45
Johnson, Lyndon B.: meeting with, 165; and Poor People’s Campaign, 86, 145; and Vietnam War, 8, 10, 33, 34
Jones, Solomon, 156–57
Jones, Thomas Oliver “T. O.,” 18, 19
Kennedy, John F., 44, 74–75, 126–27, 165
Kentucky Leadership Conference, 120
King, A. D.: alcoholism of, 121–22; arrival at Lorraine Motel of, 117, 118; Georgia Davis and, 120, 121–22; late-night talk with, 126; phone call to parents with, 142
King, Alberta, 142
King, B. B., 48
King, Coretta, 125–31; in civil rights movement, 126–28; on day of departure to Memphis, 2; early life of, 127; and extramarital affairs of MLK, 129–31; at march after death of MLK, 159; relationship of MLK and, 125–26, 128–29; subsequent life and death of, 171; tension over money with, 129; sexism experienced by, 128
King, Martin Luther, Jr.: airport arrival of, 23–29; calling to political activism of, 163–64; change in appearance of, 1–2; contents of briefcase of, 8–10; credibility as leader of, 4–6; death of, 155–59; death threats against, 6, 75, 112–13, 126; decision not to speak at rally by, 81–83; exhaustion and illness of, 5, 81–82; expectation of violent death by, 2, 74–75, 112–15, 161, 164; extramarital affairs of, 117, 120–21, 129–31; fatalism of, 74–75, 113–14, 161; fear for safety of, 73–75; on flight from Atlanta, 1–6; and the Invaders, 49–50; invitation to speak in Memphis, 31–37; knife attack on, 111–12, 126; last afternoon in life of, 141–47; leadership and charisma of, 50–51; leftist politics of, 86–88, 162–63; legacy of, 167; and Marian Logan, 83–88; at Lorraine Motel, 49; Memphis newspapers on, 54; as nonviolent leader, 12; personal safety of, 24–25; possible injunction against, 24, 26–27; preaching own eulogy by, 113, 167; public speaking by, 108, 109, 111; religious training and faith of, 161–62; sabbatical job offered to, 158; salary taken by, 129; scope of purpose of, 165; and Southern food, 135–36; speech at Mason Temple rally by, 107–15; and staff of SCLC, 50–52; view of most white Memphians of, 53; voice of, 109; oratorical excellence of, 12, 85, 111 Chicago campaign of, 5, 55, 58, 65-66, 70–71, 86
King, Martin Luther, Sr., 111, 142
King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, 171
Kirk, Claude, Jr., 9
knife attack in Harlem (New York), 111–12, 126
Ku Klux Klan, 40
Kyles, Gwen, 147
Kyles, Samuel “Billy”: at death of MLK, 155, 156, 157; on death threats in Miami, 77; in desegregation of Memphis, 16; on first Mason Temple rally, 36; on garbage workers strike, 16; invitation to speak by, 31–32; on last afternoon, 146, 147; on second Mason Temple rally, 108, 114
labor unions, relationship of MLK to, 101–2
Lafayette, Bernard, 145
Lawson, James (Jim): at airport arrival, 25; background of, 56–57; at first Mason Temple rally, 35–36; on injunction, 56, 57, 58, 135, 141, 147; and the Invaders, 69–70, 71, 138; invitation to speak by, 32; on Poor People’s Campaign, 53; at second Mason Temple rally, 102
Lee, Bernard: at death of MLK, 155; dinner after Mason Temple rally with, 117; on flight from Atlanta, 1, 6; on injunction, 56, 60; and the Invaders, 135; at Lorraine Motel, 49; relationship and role of, 27, 28
leftist politics, 86–88, 162–63
Lewis, David, 104
Lewis, John, 73–74
Lightman, M. A., 16
Loeb, Henry, 39–46; background of, 41, 42–43; demeanor of, 40–41, 42–43; desegregation under, 43; hiring of replacement workers by, 20–21; injunction sought by, 26; in Mason Temple speech, 109–10; and Frank McRae, 40, 41, 42–43, 46, 100; office of, 40–41; racism of, 44–45; refusal to recognize union by, 19, 45, 169; response to riot by, 24; response to strike by, 43–44, 45–46; retirement and death of, 169; unwillingness to negotiate by, 3, 31
Loeb, Mary Gregg, 42
Loeb Laundry Cleaner Company (Memphis), 42, 43, 45
Logan, Arthur, 84
Logan, Marian, 14, 83–88, 143
Lorraine Motel (Memphis), 47–49; arrival at, 29, 47, 48; final lunch at, 135–36; history of, 47–48; media identification of, 149; security risks at, 48–49
Los Angeles: police security in, 77; James Earl Ray in, 95–96
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