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Abernathy, Ralph David First Baptist Church and
leadership in Montgomery
Montgomery Improvement Association and
Southern Christian Leadership Conference and
AFL-CIO
Alabama Council on Human Relations
Alabama Southern Baptists
Alabama State College/University
Alabama Tribune
Allen, Erna Dungee
Anderson, Marian
Anderson, Trezzvant W.
Andrews, Olive
Anna M. Duncan Club
Antioch College, xvi
Atlanta, Georgia, xii
Atlanta University
Azbell, Joe
Bagley, J. H.
Baker, Ella
Baldwin, James
Beech, Gould
Bell, Horace G.
Bellamy, Edward
Bennett, L. Roy
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham, Dave
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston University, xii
Brightman, Edgar
Brock, Jack D.
Brooks, Hilliard
Brooks, Joseph
Brooks, Phillips
Brooks, Sadie
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Browder, Aurelia
Browder v. Gayle
Brown, Warren
Brown v. Board of Education
Burks, Mary Fair,
Burks, Mary Fair
(cont.)
Burroughs, Nannie Helen
Busby, Steven
Carmichael, Stokely
Carr, Johnnie
Carroll, E. Tipton
Carter, Eugene W.
Citizens Club (Montgomery)
Citizens Coordinating Committee (Montgomery)
Citizens Overall Committee
Citizens Steering Committee
Civil War
Cleere, George
Cloverdale Christian Church (Montgomery)
Colvin, Claudette
communism.
See also
King, Martin Luther, Jr.: communism and
Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)
Crenshaw, Jack
Crozer Theological Seminary
Curry, Izola
Democratic Party
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church bus boycott and
history of
Vernon Johns and
King’s call to Dexter
King’s departure from Dexter
King’s sermons at
King’s tenure at
sit-in movement and
Dexter Avenue Methodist Church
Dexter Avenue Social and Political Action Committee
Dombrowski, James
Durr, Clifford
Durr, Virginia Montgomery and
New Deal and
Rosa Parks and
Eastland, James
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Englehardt, Sam
Farm and City Enterprises
Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)
Fellowship of the Concerned (Montgomery)
Field, Marshall
Fields, Uriah J.
First Baptist Church (Montgomery)
Fisk University
Fleming v. South Carolina Electric and Gas Company
Folsom, Jim
Fosdick, Harry Emersonnn
Frazier, G. Stanley
Freedom Rides
French, Edgar
Gandhi, Mahatma
Gayle, William “Tacky”
Ghana
Glasco, R. J.
Glass, Thelma
Gomillion, Dean
Graetz, Robert S.
Gray, Fred
Great Depression
Greensboro, North Carolina
Hall, Grover
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Hayes, Roland
Highlander Folk School
Horton, Myles
Hubbard, Hillman H.
Hughes, Robert
India
Jackson, Emory O.
Jet
magazine
Jim Crow
Johns, Vernon
Jones, Donald
Jones, Moses
Jones, Walter B.
Judkins, Robert Chapman
Keighton, Robert
Kelsey, George
King, Alberta Williams
King, Coretta Scott
King, Martin Luther, Jr. African American bus drivers and
antiboycott arrest and trial of
Atlanta’s impact on
beloved community and
call to ministry
capitalism and
colonialism and
communism and
Crozer Theological Seminary and
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
(cont.)
Ebenezer Baptist Church and
faith in God
family impact on
Uriah Fields crisis and
Gandhi and
Ghana trip
Holy Land trip
hope and optimism of
India trip
leadership in Montgomery
love ethic
Benjamin Mays and
Montgomery’s impact on
Morehouse College and
NAACP and
national leadership
Reinhold Niebuhr and
nonviolence
oratory of
personalism and
plagiarism and
Walter Rauschenbusch and
social gospel and
stabbing of
symbol of the civil rights movement
threats and violence against
Emmett Till and
Paul Tillich and
Henry Nelson Wieman and
working-class African Americans and
See also
King books, essays, and student papers; King sermons; King speeches
King, Martin Luther, Sr.
King books, essays, and student papers “Advice for Living
“Autobiography of Religious Development
dissertation
“My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence”
“Preaching Ministry”
Stride Toward Freedom
King sermons “Conquering Self-Centeredness”
“The Death of Evil on the Seashore”
“The Dimensions of a Complete Life”
“How to Believe in a Good God in the Midst of Glaring Evil”
“It’s a Great Day to Be Alive”
“It’s Hard to Be a Christian”
“A Knock at Midnight”
“Lessons from History”
“Loving Your Enemies”
“The One-Sided Approach of the Good Samaritan”
“Our God is Able”
“A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart”
“When Peace Becomes Obnoxious”
King speeches “Acceptance Address at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church”
“Address to MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church”
front porch address
“Give Us the Ballot”
“I Have a Dream”
Ku Klux Klan
Lewis, Rufus
Ligon, Eugene
Lincoln, Abraham
Little Rock, Arkansas
Looking Backward: 2000–1887. See Bellamy, Edward
Madison, Arthur
March on Washington
Marshall, Thurgood
Marx, Karl
Matthews, Robert
Maxwell Air Force Base
Mays, Benjamin
McCall, Walter
McCracken, Robert J.
McDonald, Susie
McGlynn, Harold
Memphis, Tennessee
Men of Montgomery
Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church (Montgomery)
Montgomery, Alabama black resistance in