Negroes and the Gun (73 page)

American Bar Association,
165

American Revolution,
61
,
63
,
66

Americus, Georgia,
91

Ames, A'Delbert,
98

AME Zion Church,
124

Amsterdam News
,
143
,
202
,
268

Anderson, Charles W.,
183

Anderson, Henry,
156

Anheuser-Busch,
111

Anniston, Alabama,
172

“Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World,”
58

AR-15 rifle,
111

Arcola, Mississippi,
185

Arizona Times
,
202

Arkansas Conference of NAACP Branches,
227

Arkansas State Press,
28
,
230

Armstrong, Louis,
117
–
118

Ashworth, Aaron,
135

Ashworth, Clark,
134

Ashworth, Sam,
134

Association of Local Black Elected Officials,
285

Association of Sleeping Car Porters,
177
,
261

Atlanta Age
,
122
,
124

Atlanta Project,
287

Atlanta Race Riot (1906),
151
,
182

Atlanta University,
151
,
158
,
193

Auld, Hugh,
32

Auld, Sophia,
32

Auld, Thomas,
32
,
33

Austin, Henry,
280
,
281

Bailey, Fred,
31
–
33
,
63
.
See also
Douglass, Frederick

Bailey, Gamaliel,
54

Bailey, Lillie,
109

Baker, Wilson,
224

Balltown Riot,
163

Baltimore Afro-American,
258

Barnett, Ferdinand,
168
,
170

Barnett, Gov. Ross,
249

Barrett, W. H.,
106
,
107

Bastrop, Texas,
28

Bates, Daisy,
28
,
227
–
231
,
243

Bates, L. C.,
28
,
227
,
230

Battle of Big Bethel,
72

Battle of Shiloh,
134

Baxter, Elisha,
93

Beasley, Hiram,
36

Beckwith, Jim,
132

Bell, Derek,
248

Belzoni, Mississippi,
28
,
219
,
230

Benjamin, Rev. C. O.,
124

Bennie, Montgomery,
18
–
20
,
24

Benson, John,
76

Berkshire County, Massachusetts,
151

Bibb, Henry,
43

Bilbo, Theodore,
237

Billy the Kid,
137

Birmingham, Alabama,
19
,
165
,
221
–
223
,
239
,
286
,
306

Birth of a Nation, The
,
86
,
193

“Black Bottom”(Detroit),
175
,
194
–
195
,
198
–
199

Black Codes,
78
–
81
,
92
,
163
,
171
,
298
,
309

Black Fox, The
,
141

Black Liberation Army,
287

Blackmon, Leola,
243
–
244

Black Mary.
See
Fields, Mary

Black Panthers,
287
–
288

Black Power,
268
,
284
,
287
–
289
,
291
,
293

Black Star Line,
178

Black Wall Street,
187
,
189

Bland, George,
159

Bloody Sunday,
224

Bobb, John,
75

Bogalusa, Louisiana,
243
,
274
–
276
,
278
,
280
–
282

Bolden, Ruth,
243
,
246

Boley, Oklahoma Territory,
132

Bolivar County, Mississippi,
216

Bond, Julian,
247
,
251

Boone County, Missouri,
36

Boston, Massachusetts,
59
–
61
,
73

bowie knife,
43
,
46
,
56
,
71
,
79

Boyd, Clarence,
216

Boyd, Rube,
308

Braden, Anne,
28

Bradley, Gov. William,
160

Bradley, Maime,
220

Bratton, William,
303

Brazos, Texas,
89

Briar, J. A.,
217

Brindle-Tails (Republican faction),
93

Bristol, Vollington,
200

“Broken Windows” theory of crime control,
316

Brooklyn Branch, NAACP,
28

Brooks, Ben,
155

Brooks, Joseph,
93

Brooks, Rev. George,
89

Brooks-Baxter War,
93

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters,
177
,
261

Browder, Rufus,
166

Brown, H. Rap,
287

Brown, John,
58
,
62

Brownlow, Gov. William,
105

Brown v. Board of Education
,
231

Bruce, John Edward,
125

Bryant, Claude,
225
–
226

Bryant, Ora,
226

Buck, Rufus,
139
–
140

Bucks County, Pennsylvania,
49

Buffalo Soldiers,
138
,
140
,
142
–
143

Bundy, Leroy,
169
–
170

Burkett, Hugh M.,
155

Butler, Benjamin,
71

Butler, Edna,
198

Byrd, Jack,
186

Byrd, Wes,
186

Byrd v. State
,
186

C&O Railroad,
106

Cainhoy, South Carolina,
99

Caldwell, Edgar,
172
–
173

Calhoun, John C.,
5

Calhoun, Willie,
100
–
101

Calhoun's Landing, Louisiana (renamed Colfax),
100

Calloway County, Kentucky,
215

Cambridge, Maryland,
226

Camilla, Georgia,
90

Camilla Riot,
90

Camp Bettens, Wyoming,
142

Camp Hill, Arkansas,
213

Camp Pendleton,
19

Canaan, New Hampshire,
69

Canada,
46
,
48
,
55
,
60
–
61
,
66
–
67
,
172
,
175
,
260

Canton, Mississippi,
269

Cape Fear, North Carolina,
88

Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
138

Carmichael, Stokely,
232
,
252
,
265
,
268
,
287
–
288

Carolina Times
,
26

Carrier, Aaron,
190
,
191

Carrier, James,
191

Carrier, Sarah,
191

Carrier, Sylvester.
See
“Man” (Sylvester Carrier)

Carson, Col. Perry,
123

Carter, Cato,
83

Carter, Sam,
190

Cascade, Montana,
144
,
146

Castro, Fidel,
260

Cates, Sam,
156

Centers for Disease Control (CDC),
314

Central High School,
227

Centreville, Mississippi,
283

Chaney, James,
240

Chaplin, William,
54

Chapman, Maria W.,
60

Charles, Robert,
114
–
117

Charleston, South Carolina,
77
,
96

Cheat River Valley, Maryland,
46

“Cherokee Bill” (Crawford Goldsby),
138
–
139

Cherokee Indians,
129
,
138

Chester County, Pennsylvania,
53

Cheyenne, Wyoming,
137

Chicago, Illinois,
29
,
55
,
65
,
89
,
154
,
168
,
192
,
202
,
206
,
235
,
239
,
282
,
285
,
295
,
299
,
300
,
302
–
302
,
305
–
307
,
309

Chicago Defender
,
202

Chickasaw Indians,
129

Childress, Smith,
161

China Grove, Georgia,
91

Chinn, C. O. (a.k.a. “Bad-ass C. O. Chinn”),
269

Choctaw Indians,
129
,
134

Christiana (Pennsylvania) Resistance, Uprising, Tragedy,
49
,
61
,
63
–
67

Cincinnati, Ohio,
52
,
56
,
121

Cincinnati Afro-American
,
121

Civilian Marksmanship Program,
21
,
276

Civil Rights Act of 1866,
82

Civil Rights Cases, The
,
118

Clark, Charles,
89

Clark, Shrf. Jim,
228

Clark, John,
137

Clarksdale, Mississippi,
242

Clay, Henry,
50

Clayton, George,
155

Cleaver, Eldridge,
287

Cleveland, Mississippi,
241
,
256

Cleveland, Ohio,
58

Cleveland Call
,
220

Cleveland Gazette
,
119
,
124

Coalition to Stop Gun Violence,
285

Coatesville, Pennsylvania,
56

Coke, Richard,
93

Cole, Carolyn,
23

Cole, Howard,
238
–
239

Cole, James “Catfish,”
20
,
23
–
24
,
146

Colfax, Louisiana,
100
–
103

Colfax, Schuyler,
100

Collins, Shrf. Ben,
242

Colored Suffrage Convention,
59

Colored Waifs Home for Boys,
117

Columbia, Tennessee,
27
,
213

Comanche Indians,
141
-
142

Committee of Twelve,
127

Compromise of 1850,
39
,
50

Confederate,
72
–
73
,
75
,
77
–
78
,
87
,
93
–
94
,
101
,
121
,
135
,
142
,
152
,
157
,
171
,
189
,
216
,
237
,
242

Connor, “Bull,”
223

Constitution League,
152

Constitution of the United States,
39
,
51
,
62
,
104
,
118
,
171
,
206
,
221

Fugitive Slave Clause,
39
,
49
–
50

right to arms,
9
,
14
,
50
–
51
,
79
–
83
,
206
,
223
,
270
,
276
,
285
,
299
,
302
–
303
,
308

separate but equal,
20
,
106

convict labor system,
104
,
114
,
157

Cook, Philip,
351

Cook Gang,
138

Cooper, Gary,
146

Cooper, Robert,
246
,
299

CORE (Congress of Racial Equality),
243
,
247
,
251
,
265
,
269
–
276
,
278
,
280
,
282
–
283
,
285
–
286
,
288
–
289
,
291
,
293

Cottenham, Green,
168

Courts, Gus,
219

Covey, Edward.
See
“Covey the Nigger-breaker”

“Covey the Nigger-breaker” (Edward Covey),
31
–
35
,
37

Covington, Jay Vann,
257

Creek Indians,
129
,
136
,
139

Crisis
(magazine),
151
,
153
–
155
,
157
–
159
,
161
,
163
,
165
,
167
,
169
,
171
,
173
,
175
,
177
–
179
,
182
,
194
,
202
,
209
–
210
,
212
,
214
,
217

Crosby, Peter,
97

Crow Indians,
129
,
132

Crowe, Alton,
281

Cruickshank, Bill,
102

Crumley, Robert,
91