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42, 44, 47, 48, 80, 111, 133, 189, 230; and discrimination in Detroit, 151, 171, 183; and education, 8–10, 16; and history of transportation protest, 64, 69, 97; and Million Man March, 232; and organization of Women’s Political Council, 51–52; and respectability, 57, 63, 78, 83–86, 88, 93; and roles for women, 17, 90, 91, 102, 103–104, 121, 138–139, 141, 160, 162, 181–182, 204, 212, 217, 218, 274n17; and sexual exploitation, 10–12, 16, 22–23, 24, 27, 28, 31, 48, 54, 58, 64, 93, 120, 226; and treatment at March on Washington, 160–163; and WPAC, 163
    Blake, James Fred, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65–66, 67, 88, 134, 168, 263n116, 264n149
    boycotts, 47, 226, 228; and aftermath of Montgomery bus boycott, 132–140; memorialization of bus boycott, ix-xiv, 150, 236, 238, 240, 241; Montgomery bus boycott, 1, 7, 9, 26, 34, 49, 51, 52, 54, 60, 63, 71–74, 78, 79, 80–135, 165, 201, 203, 204–205, 206, 208, 211, 262n102, 270n151, 278n145; New York bus boycott, 44; and Parks’s situation, 141–148, 150, 154, 155, 195, 211; River Rouge bank boycott, 156; threatened boycott of Dearborn, 231
    Brinkley, Douglas, xi, 2, 12, 30, 37, 93, 100, 137, 139, 141, 158, 162, 196, 222, 288n183, 291n93
    Brooks, Hilliard, 48–49, 113
    Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 17–18, 19, 30, 128, 165, 201, 211
    Browder v. Gayle
, 108–109, 114, 132, 133, 141, 146
    Brown II
(1955), 36
    Brown v. Board of Education
, 18, 34, 35, 36, 39, 52, 55, 113, 114, 141, 146, 193
    Burks, Mary Fair, 8, 9, 45, 51–52, 67, 74, 78, 79
    Butler, Bertha, 32, 72, 187
    Carmichael, Stokely, 179, 190, 191, 194, 215, 221
    Carr, Johnnie, 8, 9, 17, 24, 26, 29, 55, 79–80
    Carter, Eugene, 112
    Carter, Mary Hays, 102, 186, 210
    Central Congregational Church, 178, 179, 198
    Chavis, Ben, 226, 230
    Chisholm, Shirley, 218
    Citizen’s Advisory Committee on Police Community Relations, 176
    Citizens City-wide Action Committee (CCAC), 197–198
    city councils: Montgomery (AL), 95; Detroit (MI), 175, 187, 199
    civil rights movement.
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black freedom movement
    Civil Rights Act (1964), 159, 193, 283
    Clark, Septima, 29, 38–39, 41–42, 71, 91, 130, 162, 201, 203, 211; and financial concerns of Parks 137, 139, 144, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 163; and Parks’s assistance for Highlander, 148, 153, 158
    Cleage, Albert, 175, 177, 178–180, 191, 192, 197–199, 210, 211, 223
    Cleveland Courts projects, 49, 72–73, 75, 80, 86, 94, 108, 134, 241; history of, 32, 256n95
    Cold War, 83, 84, 94, 118, 145, 158, 169, 212
    Colvin, Claudette, xi, 31, 33, 51, 64, 85, 114; bus arrest and case, 53–54, 56–60, 67, 69, 74, 76, 79, 80
    Communist Party, 15, 35, 37, 77, 83, 96, 112, 128, 141, 145–148, 155, 165, 168, 184–185, 187, 188, 189, 204, 224; and anti-communism, xiv, 24,176
    Conyers, John, Jr., 180–187, 218–219, 221, 285n85; and 1967 Detroit riot, 194, 195, 197; employment of Parks, vii, xiii, 143, 164, 167, 169, 170–171, 177, 182–187, 286n117; and initial campaign for Congress, 164, 180–182; on Parks’s political sensibility, 205–207, 264n165; and Parks’s shared political commitments, 220, 230, 231, 238, 239, 281n258; and Parks’s work in office, 182–187, 203, 211, 214, 225, 226, 229
    Cooper, Carl, 198, 199
    Crenshaw, Doris, 32, 33, 46, 64
    Crockett, George, 180, 187, 195, 224
    Cruse, Anne, 148, 169, 178
    Current, Gloster, 145, 146, 153, 155, 156–157, 280n213
    desegregation, xiii, 154, 170; of housing, 182; integration, 38, 40, 70, 113, 133, 139, 159, 168, 204, 227; of schools, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 45, 115, 119, 131, 136, 193; of transportation, 67, 98, 106, 112, 134, 135, 137
    Detroit and racial inequality, xii-xiii, 151, 156, 165–168, 191–200, 223–225, 230–235
    Detroit Free Press
, 185, 233, 236
    Detroit’s Great March, 174–180
    Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, 44–45, 52, 54–55, 81, 82
    Dickerson, Mahalia, 30
    “Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work” campaign, 44, 97
    Durr, Clifford, 72, 109, 122; and Virginia, 35–36, 44, 75, 76, 99
    Durr,
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