Black Like Me (31 page)

The Church and the Black Man
226, 229

Griffin, John Howard (continued)

The Devil Rides Outside
236 (and Supreme court case 221)

Encounters With the Other
236

France 217–219

Humanitarian awards 235

“The Intrinsic
Other
” 236

lectures 216

Negro Griffin 127

Nuni
221, 236

“Racist Sins of Christians” 225, 237

Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision
221, 236–37

Street of the Seven Angels
221

A Time to be Human
230, 237

writer recognized 34, 235

Groppi, Father James 205

Halsell, Grace (
Soul Sister)
224

Hamer, Fannie Lou 228

Harding, Vincent and Rosemarie (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) 229, 237

Hattiesburg (see Mississippi)

hospitality, Black 97–99, 109–17

Hughes, Langston xi, 231

humor, 77, 112

gallows 73, 74

improvement

financing 141–42

housing 142–43

integration 226

Jackson, Adelle 5, 6

Jews
xi, xiii
, 73, 77

Johnson, President Lyndon B. (social justice, civil rights and redwoods 196)

Jones, Penn (Jr.) 160–61, 168

justice 223 (and peace 171)

Equal for all 211

Plato on 53

Southern (white man’s) 48–49, 75, 109, 131, 175

Kansas, Wichita 196–97

Kerner Commission 195

King, Coretta Scott 229

King, Martin Luther 121, 142, 144, 181–82, 185–86, 194–95, 201–05, 224–26, 229 (Beloved Community 230) (“Letter From A Birmingham Jail” 226, 238)

Kozol, Jonathan 216, 236

217

Ku Klux Klan 73, 129, 138, 140, 141, 187

Latin 56

Latin Americans 28

Lee, Harper 229

legalized injustice 76

Levitan, George 4, 6, 159, 163

Levy, Gladys and Harold 156

Lewis, Ted 155

lived experience 197 (blackness as 231–32)

loneliness 12, 15–18, 79

Louisiana

New Orleans 145–147 and Claiborne 45

French Quarter 10, 22, 24, 26, 31, 43, 70–71

inequalities 81

Lake Pontchartrain 54

Negro sections 8 (South

Rampart / Dryades St) 8, 9, 14, 20, 31, 35, 40, 43, 50

lynching

Parker case 47–49 63–64 (FBI 48, 63), (Pearl River Grand Jury 48, 64), (Griffin 223)

Mansfield (see Texas)

marijuana 56

Maritain, Jacques
ix
, 51, 96, 137–39, and
Scholasticism and Politics
, 137

Mays, Benjamin 135, 140–43, 189

McGill, Ralph 77. 140–41, 189

media (see press)

Merton, Thomas 225, 237

Mexico (Morelia as rufuge for Griffin’s family) 173, 223 (Mexican)
xi

Miami Republican Convention 1968, 200–201

missionaries (Black) 119–20

Mississippi 49, 54, 59–60, 62-, 81

Biloxi 81, 84–96

Hattiesburg 51–52, 60, 64, 69, 72–79

Libertyville murder of Mr. Lewis Allen 186–87

Poplarsville 63–64

Mobile (see Alabama)

Montgomery (see Alabama)

Moral conversion 42

music 70–71, 145, 173

ballad (Mack Parker) 67

blues 55, 66–67

music (continued)

jazz 7, 67

jukebox 19, 66, 68

Negro (see also Black) white treatment toward 28

Negro cafés 20, 22, 26, 32–35, 38, 40, 100, 152, (drugstore 67)

Negro Civic leaders, 144

Alexander, T. M. (businessman) 134, 145

community indebtedness of 142

freedoms 75, 182

Gayle, Mr. 33

McLendon, F. Earl 143

New Orleans leaders 33–34

Walden, A.T. (Attorney) 144

Williams, Reverend Samuel 144 “Negro-ness” 26, (as racist construction 42)

New Orleans (see Louisiana)

night as comfort
xi
, 231

nightmare (recurring) 117, 138

nonviolent resistance 117, 121, 138, 182 226, 228 and outside agitators 200

Other
215–17, 219, 221, 233–34

patriotism (distortions of) 79

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
(see press)

prejudice 232–234 (see also discrimination and white supremacy) and art 47

beatings 66

Black discussion of/ attitudes on 9–10, 22, 26, 33, 40–43, 45–46, 63, 67–68, 201–208, 217

buses 21–22, 45–46, 61–63

communism 42, 43, 183, 200–01

courtesy 51, 151 (white 28, 33, 46) (Black 40)

dermatologist’s 9–11

education 41, 93–94, 115–16, 128, 141–143, 217–18

emotional 12–13, 212, 215

employment 39, 41–42 (& education 42, 127) (see also job discrimination)

School Board 144

Griffin’s 211, 232

harassment 35–38 (by police 45, by bus driver 45–46)

hate stare 51–53, 66–68, 117, 118, 120, 122, 126, 216. 231 218

prejudice (continued)

“observing self ” of author 34, 67, 69, 215

passing over 9, 13, 123–26

skin color 10, 33–34, 179–180, 216, 225

southern 217

walking 39, 44–46, 151

white women 21–22, 52, 60, 69, 124–25, 150

press and

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
140, 189

Black Like Me
reception 224, 229

Black Press (not read by whites) 190

Black Star
139

Coates, Paul (T.V. interview) 160

East, P.D. (white, liberal, newspaperman) 72–81 (and harassment 74–77, 187–189

Fort Worth Star-Telegram
154, 166–68, 170

Garroway, Dave 161–62, 223

Golden, Harry 163

Hall, Benn
Sepia
’s PR person 163

Jackson, Adelle Mrs, (
Sepia
’s editorial director) 5–6

Levitan, George (
Sepia
owner) 4–6, 159, 163

Lewis, Ted (interview) 155

Look
(Ralph McGill - civil rights won misrepresentation 189)

The Louisiana Weekly
, Negro newspaper 48–49

The Magnolia Jungle
(P.D. East autobiography) 74, 77

Newsweek
235

The Petal Paper
74–77 (and citizens’ councils) 76

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
235–36

progressive newspaper men 140

Radio-Television Française
165–66

Ramparts
(radical Catholic magazine) 225

Reader’s Digest
34

Rutledge, Dan, photographer
q.v
.

Sepia
international Negro magazine 4–6, 155, 223, 235–36

Sign
(mainstream Catholic monthly) 225

press (continued)

Southern attitudes 74–77

Sprigle, Ray 235–36

Terkel, Studs
ix-x
, 231, 239

Time Magazine
161, 163, 235

Wallace, Mike 155, 163–65, 224

progressive intellectuals

economists 142

professors 206

social sciences 42

students 40, 189, 206, 216, 228

Puerto Rican 11

racial epithets 33, 38, 46, 64, 67, 74, 77, 174

racism, (see also discrimination, prejudice and white supremacy)

Burke, Edmund on, 217

institutionalized 42, 217, 228,

in North 224–25

on racial hatred 216

reports and statistics on 159

racists (religiocity of) 42, 138 (sexual perversions of 103–106)

reverse racism as false analogy 227

Rutledge, Don (photographer) 134, 144, 145, 238 (photo section 149–156)

salaciousness and

“democratic” 28

rape 94, 103–05

salacious restroom notices 82–83 “verbal pornography” 87–95

Savage Inequalities
(Jonathan Kozol) 216, 236

segregation 25, 44–45, 52–53, 171, 224 1954

Decision 75

buses 54

Selma (see Alabama)

sensuality (as escape 19)

male perspective (and sex) 15, 114 “racial purity” 104 (and “race-mixing” 42–43) (see also salaciousness)

sex

as escape from racism 19, 47, 70

false accusations toward anti-racists (woman “rap” against priests and indecent exposure) 183–185

Smith, Lillian 183 (
Strange Fruit
) 111

“southern traitors” 77 219

“southern traitors” 77

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 227

terrorism 49

Terkel, Studs (see press)

Texas

Dallas 6, 168–69, 217

Fort Worth 4, 166–68

Mansfield 148, 154, 161, 165, 167, 170, 221, 223

Midlothian 168 “thinking white” 232

Thompson, Fr. August 225

Thoreau, Henry David 226

threats against Griffin and family 169–71 (telephone) 161, 223

Traitor, southern 76–77

Turner, Decherd (see universities)

Tuskegee Institute 127, 128, 131

universities

Atlanta 143 (and Pres. Rufus E. Clement) 144

Black 206 (and Black Press 190) Dillard 40, 45 (and Dean Sam Gandy 78–82)

Morehouse 140

Radcliffe (Justice Curtis Bok speech 171–172)

Spelman 143, 145

Southern Methodist University (Perkins School of Theology) 169 (Decherd Turner 168–70)

Tuskegee 127–28 (and Carver, George Washington 127)

Vutha, John (Grand Chief of the Solomons) 219–20

Wallace, Mike (see press)

Washington D.C., March 189, 201

white supremacy 46–47, 140, 192- and alcohol 128–130

arms 199–200

anthropology 115

Black solidarity and friendship as buffer against 18, 53, 63, 59

Black unity 33

democracy 49

genocide 196, 200, (and sterilization 207)

history of in
Epilogue
“What’s Happened Since
Black Like Me
” 179–208

white supremacy (continued)

hostility toward anti-racist whites 74–77, 167–73, 182–84

interracial communication 190–95

media 94

mob rule 49

paternalism 131

Nazis 179, 219

police raids 199–200

racial violence 105–06

racist poison 125

religion 42, 74–75, 138, 224

sawmill worker 109

sexual attitudes 91–92, 103–06 (warnings 65–66)

sexual morality constructions 115

stereotypes (forced 180–81)

(cultural 232)

“trash element” 116

truth and comfort 7

violence as false accusation 195

White Citizen’s Councils 76, 138, 140, 141

white contempt 128–29

white lag in understanding 205–06

white misrepresentations of civil rights 189

white “outsider” 84–85

white proprietors 19, (cabs 65) white solicitation 103 (and democratic treatment 28) white youth 118, 119

writing (paralysis 69)

wife (see Elizabeth Holland Griffin)

Williams, Sterling 10, 23–31, 46–50, 147, 152–53 and

Negro women 39, 53, 236, 111 (widow 26–27)

Williams, Dr. Samuel 144

Wilkins, Roy (see Civil Rights Movement leaders)

YMCA 31–33, 35, 39, 44, 134

Young, Whitney (see Civil Rights Movement leaders)