The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

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Author: Jeanne Theoharis
90–92, 97–98, 99, 104–105, 107, 108, 110, 111, 121, 136, 150, 151; and March on Washington, 159–162; and northern activism, 174–175, 181, 199–200; and northern white resistance to, 196, 199–200, 202; and Parks before the boycott, 55–56; and personal experience with bus segregation, 49–50; redbaiting of, 146–148, 184–185, 187; and Selma-to-Montgomery march, 188;
Stride Toward Freedom
, 71, 78
    King, Rosalyn Oliver, 46–47, 80
    King Solomon Baptist Church, 209
    Ku Klux Klan, 3, 6, 9, 29, 65, 124, 147, 188, 189
    Lewis, John, 160, 239
    Lewis, Rufus, 24, 54, 90, 100
    Liuzzo, Viola, 188–189
    Lowndes County Freedom Organization, 190
    Lucy, Autherine, 110, 114–115, 125, 128, 129, 130, 146
    Lumumba, Chokwe, 205, 207, 225, 227–228
    lynching, 7, 15, 20, 23, 43, 45, 54, 93, 142; and anti-lynching legislation, 27, 33
    Madison, Arthur, 21
    Madison, Joseph, 231
    Malcolm X, ix, xiii, 7, 160, 178, 180, 185, 191, 201, 205, 207, 208, 222; meets Parks, 209–212
    March on Washington, 159–163, 185, 211, 216
    Marshall, Thurgood, 48, 128, 211
    Matthews, Robert, 24, 26, 30
    Maxwell Air Force Base, 16, 48, 50, 101, 113, 116, 124
    McCauley, James, 2–3
    McCauley, Leona, vii, xii, 13, 14, 17, 20, 21, 23, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 37, 51, 56, 64, 65, 72, 80, 102, 107, 128; background and Parks’s childhood, 1–10, 250n10; and Parks’s arrest, 74–77; and difficulties during the boycott, 101–102, 119, 121, 124, 125, 131, 134, 140; and difficulties in Detroit, 149–150, 154, 159, 222, 286n119, 291n102; and visit to Highlander, 136, 137; death of, 229
    McWhorter, Diane, 138, 159
    Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, viii, ix
    Michigan Chronicle
, 151, 175, 176, 199, 220, 223
    middle class, 16, 26, 30, 51, 52, 54, 72, 73, 77, 79, 99, 156, 172, 176, 295n59
    Million Man March, 232
    Miss White’s Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, xii, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17
    Montgomery Advertiser
, 27, 31, 41, 82, 83, 87, 94, 95, 96, 98, 100, 106, 108, 111, 113, 125, 166
    Montgomery Fair, 37, 42–43, 60, 61, 65, 100, 102, 108, 116, 118, 139
    Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), 102, 113, 115, 118, 119, 127, 137–138, 140; and organization of boycott, 92, 94–98, 99, 100, 112; origins of, 90–91; treatment of Parks, 104, 105, 107, 121–122, 132, 136–145, 148–149, 152, 153, 157, 159, 273n9
    Montgomery Progressive Democratic Association, 44
    Moore, Audley (Queen Mother Moore), ix, 212, 221, 223, 232
    Morgan, Juliette, 125–126
    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, (NAACP), xi, xiii, 7, 8, 14, , 70, 112, 118, 122, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 133, 140, 145, 146, 149, 152, 153, 154, 155, 157, 159, 160, 161, 164, 177, 211, 224; Detroit branch, 152, 172, 174, 175–176, 193, 203, 231, 280n205; Detroit youth chapter, 190; Monroe chapter, 213–214; Montgomery branch and Parks’s work with, 17–35, 37, 41, 44, 51, 55, 60–61, 64, 66, 67, 69, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 85, 234, 249n10, 255n50, 257n117, 258n161, 268n84; and Montgomery bus boycott, 85, 108–109, 118–119, 126–131, 137–138; Nixon election and activist reorientation of Montgomery branch, 24–30; Parks joins, 17–18; Raymond Parks and, 15–17; redbaiting of 39, 83–84, 96, 114; River Rouge (MI) branch, 155–156, 165; Youth Council (Montgomery), 29–30, 32–33, 36, 37, 41, 43, 45, 56, 58–59, 64, 69, 85, 86–87, 88, 89, 93, 212
    National Black Political Convention (Gary Convention), 221
    National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in American (N’COBRA), 231–232
    National Council of Negro Women, 130, 131, 161
    National Negro Labor Council, 127, 145, 201
    National Urban League, 160
    New York Times
, viii, 94, 110, 112, 114, 216, 233, 249n7
    Niebuhr, Reinhold, 39, 158
    Nixon, E. D, 17–20, 21, 23, 36, 43, 46, 48, 49, 122, 123, 125, 128, 134–135, 188, 206, 213, 221; election as NAACP branch president and activist reorientation of Montgomery branch, 24–30; and activism pre-boycott, 34–35, 44, 45; and Montgomery bus boycott,
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