Washington, D.C., March on, 190
Watkins, Hollis, 76, 268
in McComb, 68
in Hattiesburg, 82, 102
Weaver, Claude, 100
Weinberger, Eric, 175, 177, 180
Weld, Theodore, 3, 9
Wells, James, 76
West, E. Gordon, 204
Wharton, Vernon, 64
White, Byron, 49
White, Theodore, 226
White students
reactions of Negroes to, 137–138
Whitten, Jamie L., 257–258
Wide Area Telephone Service, 245
Wilkins, Roy, 1
Williams, Avery, 108, 163
Williams, James, 183, 193
Wingfield, Charles, 136–137
Winona, Miss., 94–95, 207
Winston Salem, N.C., 28
Wofford, Harris, 58
Wolfe, Thomas, 249
Wood, Mrs. of Hattiesburg, 12, 103, 106–107, 117
Woodward, C. Vann, 65n, 198
Wright, Irene, 125, 127
on effects of Albany demonstrations, 133
Wright, Marian, 92
Wright, Stephen, 21
Wyckoff, Elizabeth, 55
Yancey, Bobby 235–236
Young, Whitney, 29
Young Man Luther, 5–6
Young Women’s Christian Association, 34, 37
Zachary, Francis, 119–121
Zellner, Bob, 10, 182, 239
in McComb, 74, 75, 170–171
in Albany, 129, 133–134
background of, 168–169
arrest in Baton Rouge, 172–174
on walk to Jackson, 175
praises Claude Sitton and Carl Fleming, 179
arrest in Alabama, 179–180
in Danville, 180–181
Zellner, Dotty, 182
Zwerg, James, 47–49
* The Compromise arose partly out of the disputed presidential election of 1876, and arranged for the Republican candidate, Rutherford Hayes, to become President in return for certain concessions to the South. But, more fundamentally, it came out of the general conditions of the post-Civil War era, in which Northern politicians and businessmen needed Southern white support for peaceful national development along the lines they desired. The Compromise of 1877 gave an affirmative answer to the question, as C. Vann Woodward puts it in Reunion and Reaction: “… could the South be induced to combine with the Northern conservatives and become a prop instead of a menace to the new capitalist order?”