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Index:

Page references in bold type indicate photographs.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 16, 312–325

Burks, Caroline, 338

Business, African American

American Woodmen Life Insurance Company, 210

black women and, 8, 10–11

Mary Ellen Pleasant and, 56–66

Sarah Gammon Bickford and, 142–143

social order and, 209–210

. See also Industry opportunities

 

C

Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nuñez, 37

California

black migration to, 7–8, 176, 254–270

Black Panther Party, 344

challenges to racial discrimination in, 8, 68n.18

civil rights movement in, 16, 71

interracial marriage and, 35–36

Mary Ellen Pleasant and, 56–66

motion picture industry, 13, 228–229

race and Spanish colonization of, 4, 40–41

slavery in, 7

women's club movement in, 12

California, Bank of, 61–62

California Colored Citizen's Convention, 8, 100–101

Calloway, Cab, 235, 239

Canada

abolition movement and, 59, 67n.7

black migration to, 8, 71–72, 330

Cannady, Beatrice Morrow, 11, 24, 189–190, 194–201

Canty, Hattie, 282–284

Capra, Frank, 228

Carmichael, Stokely, 349, 351

Carter, Bunchy, 354

Carter, Robert, 322

Casta, 33, 38-39

Catholicism

black women and, 25

colonization and Native American conversion to, 37–38

education and, 220

Fredi Washington and, 234

Spanish colonization and, 4–5

. See also Religion

Catholic University of America, 176

Cayton, Horace, 191

Cayton, Susie Revels, 11, 24, 189–194

Chapman, Kate D., 10, 140–141

Che-Lumumba Club, 353

Chicago, Ill., 190, 194, 344

Chicago, University of, 194

Chicago Defender, 199, 237

Chicago Eight, 353

Child care

Black Panther Party and, 355–356

Dorcas Charity Club and, 191

helping ethic and, 264–265

maintaining cultural values and, 260

Women's clubs and, 11–12

Women's Day Nursery, 12

. See also Orphanages

Childs, Lyn, 15, 251–252, 246n.36

Chisimard, Joanne. See Shakur, Assata

Churches, African American

African Methodist Episcopal (AME), 190

community activism and, 106

creation of, 10

family and community role of, 100–101, 135, 169, 113n.13

First AME Church, Seattle, Wash., 205–206

First Street Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, Okla., 334

Progressive Baptist Church, Berkley, Calif., 269–270

role in assisting freedpeople, 9

role in early black protest, 8

role in integration, 130–131

Siloam Baptist Church, Sacramento, Calif., 100

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala., 353

St. Andrew's African Methodist Episcopal Church, Sacramento, Calif., 100–101

 

Taylor Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, Oakland, Calif., 269

Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Mont., 123–136, 185

Wesley Chapel AME Church, Los Angeles, Calif., 20n.27

. See also Religion

Churches of Christ in America, Federal Council of, 199

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS)

African American membership in, 10

history of, 157n.1

Jane Elizabeth Manning James and the, 144–157, 188

slavery and, 7

. See also Religion

Civil disobedience, 334

Civil Rights Act of 1875, 92n.64

Civil Rights Act of 1875, Supplementary, 107–108

Civil rights movement

activism and, 179

black radicalism and the, 346–347

bridge leadership in the, 348–349

Colored Ladies Legal Rights Association and, 10

community and family and the, 8–9, 97–98

Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and, 222–223

discrimination and the, 333

in early California, 8, 71, 74–75

education and the, 312–313

Mary Ellen Pleasant and, 56–60

Montana and, 127–128

Nevada and the, 284–287

Oregon and, 195–196

post-World War II and the, 15–16

public education in Sacramento and, 102–104

public transportation in San Francisco and, 75–85

San Francisco, Calif. and the, 270–272

sit-in demonstrations and the, 328–329

Texas and the, 293–305

. See also Black Panther Party

Clark, Septima, 329

Class, social, 3-4, 11-12

Cleaver, Eldridge, 351–353, 352, 355

Cleaver, Kathleen, 347, 350–352

Clement, George C., 199

Clover Leaf Art Club, 178–179

Coleman, Rachel, 283–284

Colonel Young War Savings Society, 194

Colonization, Spanish. See Spanish colonization

Colorado

black migration to, 207–208

challenges to racial discrimination in, 10

Chinese population in, 208–209, 224n.11

Colored Orphanage and Old Folks Home, 12

racism in, 166

women's club movement in, 12, 23

. See also Denver, Colo.

Colorado, University of, 165

Colorado Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 11

Colorado Springs, Colo., 165

Colorado State College of Education, 213

Colored Agriculture and Normal University, Langston, Okla., 331

Colored Citizen's Convention, California

community and family and the, 100–101

education and, 98, 107

St. Andrew's African Methodist Episcopal Church and, 115n.26

Colored Orphanage and Old Folks Home, 12

Colored Women's Republican Club, 211

Committee to Free the Scottsboro Boys, 193

Common law, common carriers and, 77, 89n.28

Communism, 301–302

Angela Davis and, 353

Communist Party and, 193–194, 353–354

Lulu Belle Madison White and, 301, 304

Lyn Childs and, 251–252